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The Beautiful Language of My Century Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France 19451968 - October Books
Author: Tom McDonough
In postwar France, the aesthetics of appropriation and collage gave cultural form to a struggle over meaning. A new wave of avant-garde experimentation used--or stole, plagiarized, and expropriated--elements from advertising, journalism, literature, art, and other sources of common discourse (the ironically named "beautiful language" of this boo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262134774
ISBN-10: 0262134772
Publication Date: 2/28/2007
Pages: 283
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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