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The text provides information on the Neoists, Plagiarists, Art Strikers and other obscure art groups formed in the eighties and nineties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Discusses Art Strike of 1990-1993 and reproduces Neoist manifestos. tewart Home (born 1962, London) is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess (2002), his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love (2005), and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose that pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.Wikipedia: "From 1982 to 1984, Home operated as a one-person-movement "Generation Positive", and having already founded a punk band called White Colours (named after an experimental novel by R. D. Reeve) in 1980, he started a new group with the same name in 1982. He also published an art fanzine SMILE, the name of which was a play on the Mail Art zines FILE and VILE...

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Provides historic backgrounds of several post World War II avant garde art movements of the 20th century such as pataphysics, situationism, Fluxus, Dutch Provos, Motherfuckers, Yippies, mail art, punk, neoism and Class War.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This anthology is a collection of critical texts giving an overview of the was in which Situationism has been "historicized" in the Anglo-American world. Contributing writers include underground legends, art theorists, ultra-leftists and academics. Bob Black writes, ...Greil Marcus, after being tutored by pro-situ Tom Ward, ended the media blackout of situationism with an article in the Village Voice. Situationism was now on its way to becoming, if not quite a household word, an avant-hip buzzword. Marcus followed up on his article with the 1989 volume Lipstick Traces, an uncritical, disorganized, but not uninformative treatment of situationism, punk rock, etc...." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.