The Tribe
Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension
Published on 8. August 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-85984-394-9 (ISBN)
Description
Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint- Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Lettrist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular vie de boheme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogues' gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers.
The Tribe is a rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists who flocked to the Left Bank for a glimpse of Sartre & Co. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of "the tribe" and a trove of Letterist leaflets and posters.
The Tribe is a rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists who flocked to the Left Bank for a glimpse of Sartre & Co. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of "the tribe" and a trove of Letterist leaflets and posters.
Reviews / Votes
The Tribe relates the Parisian wanderings of a heterogeneous group of individuals who cultivated laziness and revolt, alcohol and talk, drift and chance, creative hopes and encounters ... in the quest of a Rimbaldian derangement of the senses, of detournement of art and daily life by the defiance of order, by vandalism, be delinquency, but also by an altogether contemporary quest for a supersession of Marxism. * Le Monde libertaire *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
210 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85984-394-9 (9781859843949)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jean-Michel Mension (b. 1934) misspent his youth in Saint- Germain-des-Pres in the early 1950s before joining the Communist Party in 1962 and the Ligue Communiste in 1968. The Tribe is Mension's first book; he recently published his second, Le Temps gage: aventures politiques et artistiques d'un irregular a Paris.