JeanJacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s by Fredrickson & Dr. Laurel Jean Assistant Professor & Southern Illinois University & USA

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Title: JeanJacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s by Fredrickson & Dr. Laurel Jean Assistant Professor & Southern Illinois University & USA
Author: Fredrickson & Dr. Laurel Jean Assistant Professor & Southern Illinois University & USA
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Binding: Hardback
History of art art & design styles
No. of pages: 242
Dimensions (approx. mm): 158 x 239 x 20

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Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel's coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement Laurel Jean Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings in this book: the first 'Funeral of the Thing of Tinguely' (1960) and the most scandalous '120 Minutes dedicated to the Divine Marquis' (1966). This study illustrates the development and significance of French happenings in relation to cultural and political changes of the 1960s.

Research in Lebel's archives and others like the Archives nationale d'outre-mer are indispensable in the telling of this extraordinary historical and theoretical narrative. It illuminates sensitive often veiled dimensions of postwar French society from torture during the Algerian War to government censorship to the sexual politics of nudity in art. This volume shows how Lebel synthesized the lessons of Dada and surrealism and 1960s experimentalism electrified by political radicalism to participate in shaping the erotics and forms of revolution in May 1968.