Situationism

Thomas Hecken

Agata Grzenia

pp. 23-32

in: Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (eds), 1968 in Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Abstract

The Situationist International (S.I.) was one of many small groups of artists and bohemians in Europe who combined avant-garde points of view and revolutionary criticism of society. Founded in the 1950s, the S.I. was most influential between 1966 and 1968 when a number of important figures of the antiauthoritarian student movement adopted some of its radical principles.