Jean-Jacques Lebel and French happenings of the 1960s : the erotics of revolution / Laurel Jean Fredrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fredrickson, Laurel Jean, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lebel, Jean-Jacques--Criticism and interpretation.

Lebel, Jean-Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

Summary:

"Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel's coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, Laurel Jean Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings in this book: the first, ?Funeral of the Thing of Tinguely? (1960), and the most scandalous, ?120 Minutes dedicated to the Divine Marquis? (1966). This study illustrates the development and significance of French happenings in relation to cultural and political changes of the 1960s. Research in Lebel's archives, and others like the Archives nationale d'outre-mer are indispensable in the telling of this extraordinary historical and theoretical narrative. It illuminates sensitive, often veiled dimensions of postwar French society, from torture during the Algerian War, to government censorship, to the sexual politics of nudity in art. This volume shows how Lebel synthesized the lessons of Dada and surrealism and 1960s experimentalism, electrified by political radicalism, to participate in shaping the erotics and forms of revolution in May 1968."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : poetry as dissent

Eros, revolution, transmutation

L'enterrement de la chose de Tinguely

120 minutes dédiées au divin Marquis

Desire, spontaneity, revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Lebel, Jean-Jacques. Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9781501332340

1501332341

9781501332333

1501332333

9781501332326

1501332325

OCLC:

1238133523