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Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen

Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level – J. V. Martin and the Situationist International (Book)

Label: Sternberg Press

Format: Book

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2025 stock After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group's Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martin's strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the group's dissolution in 1972. Considering these facts the Central Committee of the Situationist International:
– proclaims that all followers of Nash, the falsifier, and Elde, his agent, will be considered enemies of the SI. 
– confers on J. V. Martin the supreme authority to represent the Situationist International in the area covered by the former Scandinavian section (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) together with the task and the responsibility to reorganize the true Situationist elements in these countries before the opening of the 6th SI congress in Antwerp.
For the C. C. of the SI. 23 March, 1962. Debord, A. Kotanyi, U. Lausen, R. Vaneigem
—Proclamation from the Internationale Situationniste, 1962
 
Published with Moderna Museet, Stockholm, this book is part of “All the King's Horses” series, Stockholm, exploring the situationists, the last and most influential avant-garde movement of the European post-war era. Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen is a Danish art historian and writer. He teaches at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University.
Details
Cat. number: 978-3-95679-105-5
Year: 2015
Notes:
published in June 2015
 
English edition
9,5 x 14,8 cm (softcover)
64 pages (15 b/w ill.)