Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus (Sternberg Press)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
3956792793
ISBN 13
9783956792793
Category
Philosophy
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Publication Year
2017
Publisher
Pages
292
Description
A study of walking as artistic action, from Surrealism to Fluxus.Walking, that most basic of human actions, was transformed in the twentieth century by Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus into a tactic for revolutionizing everyday life. Each group chose locations in the urban landscape as sites―from the flea markets and bars of Paris to the sidewalks of New York―and ambulation as the essential gesture. Keep Walking Intently traces the meandering and peculiar footsteps of these avant-garde artists as they moved through the city, encountering the marvelous, studying the environment, and re-enchanting the banal. Art historian Lori Waxman reveals the radical potential that walking holds for us all. - from Amzon
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