The walls have the floor : mural journal, May '68 / edited by Julien Besançon ; foreword by Tom McDonough ; afterword by Whitney Phillips ; translated by Henry Vale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Besançon, Julien, 1932- editor.

Contributor:

McDonough, Tom, 1969- writer of foreword.

Philips, Whitney, writer of afterword.

Vale, Henry, translator.

Standardized Title:

Murs ont la parole English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Riots--France--History--20th century.

Riots.

General Strike, France, 1968.

Student movements--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Student movements.

Graffiti.

History.

France--Paris.

Graffiti--France--Pictorial works.

France.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 202 pages : illustration ; 12 x 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

Summary:

Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellion over student living conditions and resistance to capitalist consumerism. An uprising at the Sorbonne was followed by wildcat strikes across France that united students and workers adn brought the country's economy to a halt. There have been many accounts of these events. This book tells the story in a different way, through the graffiti inscribed by protestors as they prostested--back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-202).

ISBN:

9780262038027

0262038021

OCLC:

1005203673

Publisher Number:

99979109724