Tribe
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A01=Jean-Michel Mension
Author_Jean-Michel Mension
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Product details
- ISBN 9781859843949
- Weight: 210g
- Dimensions: 151 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2002
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
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.
