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Situationist Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 8111

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

A collection of rare printed materials, artwork and other images documenting the ideas and influence of the Situationist International. Material includes 291 publications (70 books; 195 zines, pamphlets, and periodicals; 25 exhibit catalogs), 84 fliers & handbills, posters & stickers, 4 pieces of original artwork, 3 photographs, 4 prints, approximately 100 leaves of photocopied materials.

Dates

  • 1957-2005.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

Extent

3.5 cubic feet. (3.5 cubic feet.)

2 mapcase folders. (2 mapcase folders.)

Additional Description

Abstract

A collection of rare printed materials, artwork and other images documenting the ideas and influence of the Situationist International.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Publications Boxes 1-5

Zines, Pamphlets, Periodicals Exhibit Catalogs Photocopies and Articles

Series II. Ephemera Box 3

Series III. Artwork Box 3-5, Mapcase Folders 1-2

Prints and Painting Broadsides and Posters Photographs

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Books - cataloged individually in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

  1. Andreotti, Libero & Xavier Costa. Situacionistas: arte, politica, urbanismo, 1996
  2. Andreotti, Libero & Xavier Costa. Theory of the Dérive and other situationist writings on the city, 1996
  3. Anonymous, Stasi Slut, 1992
  4. Astronauts of Inner-Space, 1966
  5. Atkins, Guy. Asger Jorn the crucial years: 1954-1964 , 1977
  6. Becker-Ho, Alice & Guy Debord. A Game of War, 2007
  7. Blazwick, Iwona. An endless adventure…an endless passion…an endless banquet: A Situationist Scrapbook , 1989
  8. Brand, Paul. Constant: Opstand van de Homo Ludens , 1969
  9. Brau, Eliane. Le Situationnisme ou la Nouvelle Internationale , 1968
  10. Coeurderoy, Ernest. Pour le Révolution , 1972
  11. Constant: New Babylon
  12. Coverley, Merlin. Psychogeography , 2006
  13. Davidson, Steef. De Kunst Van Het Protest/The Art of the Protest: Posters 1965-1975 , 1981
  14. Davidson, Steef. Images de la Revolte: 1965-1975 , 1982
  15. Debord, Guy. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle , 2002
  16. Debord, Guy. Considerations on the Assassination of Gerard Lebovici , 2001
  17. Debord, Guy. Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957- August 1960), 2009 (2 copies)
  18. Debord, Guy. La Societe do Spectacle, 1967
  19. Debord, Guy. Mémoires, 1993
  20. Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle: The Lisp Translation, 2009
  21. Dejacques, Claude. A Toi L'Angoisse a Moi La Rage , 1968
  22. Elmqvist, Annika & Gittan Jönsson. Annmari Langemar, Pål Rydberg, Historieboken, 1970
  23. Ford, Simon. The Realization and Suppression of the Situationist International: An Annotated Bibliography 1972-1992 , 1995
  24. Frankrike 68 Kampen Fortsätter , 1968
  25. Gaillard, Alice. Les Diggers: Révolution et contre-culture à San Francisco (1966-1968), 2014
  26. Gruppe SPUR. Die Zeitschrift SPUR , 1962
  27. Home, Stewart. What Is Situationism? A Reader , 1996
  28. Hussey, Andrew. The Game of War: The Life nad Death of Guy Debord , 2001
  29. Internationale Situationniste 1958-69, (original), 1970
  30. Internationale Situationniste 1958-69, (reprint), 1970
  31. Jorn, Asger. Guldhorn og Lykkehjul, 1957
  32. Jorn, Asger. Jorn a Venezia, 1963
  33. Jorn, Asger. La Flûte de Jade/Jadefløjten/The Jade Flute, 1970
  34. Jorn, Asger. Modifications, 1998
  35. Jorn, Asger. Naturens Orden, 1962
  36. Jorn, Asger. Pour la forme, 2001
  37. Jorn, Asger. Ting Pölis, 1964
  38. Jorn, Asger. Værdi og Økonomi, 1962
  39. Kaufmann, Vincent. Guy Debord , 2003
  40. Knaab, Ken. Public Secrets , 1997
  41. Knaab, Ken. Situationist International Anthology, 1981
  42. Krojer, Tom. Tilliblivelsen , 1977
  43. Lambert, Jean-Clarence. New Babylon Constant: Art et Utopie , 1997
  44. Laumer, March & Hardy Strid. Hardy Strid: The Situationist Superman in Hemol Langauge , 1983
  45. Levy, "Yank" Bert. Guerrilla Warfare, 1964
  46. L'Histoire du Cinema Francais, 1990
  47. Magnus, Carl & Jörgen Nash. Heimrad Prem, Hardy Strid, Jens Jørgen Thorsen, Situationister I Konsten, 1966
  48. McDonough, Tom. The Situationists and the City, 2009
  49. Nash, Jørgen. Hanegal: Gallisk Poesialbum, 1961
  50. Nash, Jørgen. Her er jeg: Samlede Digte 1942-75, 1975
  51. Not Bored!: Anthology 1983-2010 , 2011
  52. Nuttall, Jeff. Bomb Culture, 1970
  53. Ohrt, Robert. Phantom Avantgarde:Eine Geschichte der Situationistischen Internationale und der modernen Kunst, 1990
  54. On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: The Situationist International 1957-1972 , 1989
  55. Peters, Louis F. Kunst en Revolte, 1969
  56. Plant, Sadie. The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a postmodern age, 1992
  57. Pomerand, Gabriel. Saint Ghetto of the Loans: Grimoire, 2006
  58. Rasmussen, Mikkel Bolt & Jakob Jakobsen. Expect Anything Fear Nothing, 2011
  59. Rosemont, Franklin. Surrealism & Its Popular Accomplices, 1980
  60. Rosendal, Björn The Emotional Intelligence, 1981
  61. Stansill, Peter & David Zane Mairowitz. Bamn (By Any Means Necessary): Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera 1965-1970, 1971
  62. Thorsen, Jens Jorgen. 1957-70 Situationister, 1971
  63. Vague, Tom. Anarchy in the UK: The Angry Brigade, 1997
  64. Vaneigam, Raoul. Banalita di base, 1969
  65. Vaneigam, Raoul Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations, 1967
  66. Vaneigem, Raoul. The Movement of the Free Spirit, 1994
  67. Wark, McKenzie. The Beach beneath the Street, 2011
  68. Woods, Alan. The Map is Not the Territory, 2000
  69. Zweifel, Stefan & Juri Steiner, Heinz Stahlhut. In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni - The Situationist International (1957-1972), 1978

Physical Description

Printed materials, artwork, and photographs.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Kristen Reichenbach and Jessica Riggs
Date completed:
June 2016
EAD encoding:
Marcie Farwell, June 2016
Date modified:
Ben Wrubel, October 2018

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
June 2016
Language of description
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Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

https://rare.library.cornell.edu/
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)

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