The Consul (Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Vol. II)
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780872863989
Subjects: England; Interviews; Biography / Autobiography; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Rumney, Ralph,; Biography & Autobiography; History; Biography/Autobiography; Europe; Travelers; Biography & Autobiography / General; Artists; Literary; 1934-; 20th century; Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Description: "Throughout his adventurous life, Ralph Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's friends, lovers, and traveling companions - Guy Debord, Pegeen Guggenheim, Asger Jorn, Michele Bernstein, Bernard Kops, Yves Klein, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Felix Guattari, E.P.

Thompson, Victor Brauner, and many others - are recalled in the oral history of The Consul with sharp intelligence and dry wit."--BOOK JACKET.