Avant-garde

1966 — Gutes Exemplar; der illustr. Einband berieben u. gering nachgedunkelt; minimale Gebrauchs- und Lagerspuren. - Englisch. - Erstes Blatt mit hs. Besitzvermerk von (Oskar) Wiener. - Oskar Wiener (* 4. März 1873 in Prag; † 20. April 1944 im KZ Theresienstadt) war ein deutsch-tschechoslowakischer Autor. ... (wiki) // INHALT : Dadaism and Today's Avantgarde / Raoul Hausmann ------ Poetry and Theatre / John Arden Who ------ Are the Situationists? / Jorgen Nash ------ The Concrete Poets of Brazil / Decio Pignatari ------ Advance Through Obscenity? / Maurice Girodias ------ Programmed Art / Bruno Munari ------ Back to the Wall / Allen Ginsberg ------ Letters as Picture and Language / Franz Mon ------ Culture and Technology / Marshall McLuhan ------ Theory and Practice of Text / Max Bense ------ From a letter / Diter Rot ------ The Development of Group Zero / Otto Piene ------ The Literary Techniques of Lady Sutton-Smith / W S Burroughs ------ Paradada / Dom Sylvester Houedard ------ The Vienna Group / Konrad Bayer ------ The Use of Computers to Make Semantic Toy Models of Language / Margaret Masterman ------ In the Event / R Watts ------ Poems & 1 Filmscript. --- ... The Franco-Belgian situationists base themselves on the same principles as Pascal, Descartes, Croce and Gide. Action precedes emotion. You only begin to feel religious after you have muttered your prayers. According to Scandinavian situationist philosophy action is the result of emotion and arises out of emotion. Emotion is a primary, non-reflective intelligence; passionate thought/thinking passion. We are not saying that the French method is wrong or that it cannot be used successfully. We merely say that our two outlooks are incompatible, but they can be made to supplement one another. The second Situationist International is a freely organised movement. It is a voluntary association of autonomous work groups. At the moment there exist four such groups on the Hallandsasen in the southern part of Sweden, and two more in Denmark and Finland. It also works together with the German avant-garde group SPUR in Munich, whose books have partly been published at Draka-bygget. The latest, SPUR im Exil, caused a pornography and blasphemy case to be brought against the group in the court of Munich. A periodical against popes, politicians and atomic bombs called Drakabygget has been edited since 1962, with the journalist and painter Katarina Lindell as editor. … (Seite 6; aus d. Text von Jörgen Nash: "Who are the Situationists")