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The Tribe

The Tribe

Jean-Michel Mension (Author)

$14.95
  • Publisher: City Lights
  • Format: Book
  • Binding: pb
  • Pages: 132
  • Released: Aug 31, 2001
  • ISBN-13: 9780872863927

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Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Prés 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 bohéme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogue's gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers. This rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of "the tribe" and a trove of Letterist leaflets and posters. A rare vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists flocking to Saint-Germain for a glimpse of Sartre & Co.

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