The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968

by Tom McDonough

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How culture became a field of struggle over meaning in France: the appropriation of elements from advertising, journalism, and other sources to serve political ends in art, film, and the activities of the French left, culminating in the upheavals of May 1968.

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Tom McDonough is Associate Professor of Modern Architecture and Urbanism in the Art History Department at Binghamton University, and an editor of Grey Room. He is the editor of guy Debord and the Situationist International and the author of The Beautiful Language of My Century.

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The Beautiful Language of My Century: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968

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Nonfiction, History, Art & Design
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944.082History & geographyHistory of EuropeFrance and MonacoFranceThird republic 1870-Fourth Republic 1945-1958
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DC415 .M34History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaFrance – Andorra – MonacoHistory of FranceModern, 1515-20th centuryFifth Republic, 1958-
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