The Beautiful Language of My Century": Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968

by Tom McDonough

Book Overview

How culture became a field of struggle over meaning in France: the appropriation of elements from advertising, journalism, and other sources to serve political ends in art, film, and the activities of the French left, culminating in the upheavals of May 1968.

In postwar France, the aesthetics of appropriation and collage gave cultural form to a struggle over meaning. A new wave of avant-garde experimentation used--or stole, plagiarized,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516098
• ISBN13: 9780262516099
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher