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Art - further reading guide

Libcom's guide to further reading around the subject of art, film, music and literature.

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General Problems of Culture
- Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture – Nelson/Grossberg, Eds.
- Recapturing Marxism – Levine/Lembcke, Eds.

Literature and Art

- The Dada Painters and Poets – Motherwell, Ed.
- The Dada Almanac – Huelsenbeck, Ed.
- The Situationist International Anthology – Knabb, Ed.

Finster, Ramon, 1944-1996

Ramon Finster

A founding member of the French ORA, anarchist militant, artist, writer, animator of cultural and artistic events.

The Butte aux Cailles in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, lies south of the Seine. It is one of the least known old neighbourhoods of the French capital, like its working class cousins north of the river – Batignolles, Belleville and Menilmontant. The Butte rises gently beside the now subterranean course of Paris’s forgotten river the Bievre.

USA: Striking writers threaten disruption at Golden Globes

Striking members of the Writers Guild of America plan to picket the Golden Globes awards ceremony scheduled for January 13, the guild announced Wednesday.

The west coast division of the WGA issued a statement announcing that the organizer of the awards ceremony, Dick Clark Productions, was one of the companies from which writers went on strike and therefore members would picket the awards ceremony.

Camus, Albert and the anarchists

Albert Camus

Organise! magazine looks at the life and work of the great existentialist writer Albert Camus.

Born in French Algeria into a poor family in 1913, Camus lost his father in the Battle of the Marne in 1916. He was raised by his mother, who worked as a charlady and was illiterate. Winning a scholarship, Camus eventually began a career as a journalist. As a youth, he was a keen footballer as well as being a member of a theatrical troupe.

Ba Jin obituary - The Guardian

Obituary in the Guardian of Chinese author and anarchist Ba Jin, on Tuesday October 18, 2005 by John Gittings

Ba Jin:Chinese writer who made the journey from anarchism to Mao and back again

B. Traven – An Anti-Biography

The many faces of Traven(?) Feige, Marut, Torsvan, Croves/Traven

A short biography of the writer and anarchist, B Traven, also known as Feige, Ret Marut, Torsvan, Croves...

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B. TRAVEN – AN ANTI-BIOGRAPHY
The biography of a creative man is completely unimportant.” – B. Traven


Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924

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A short biography of the anarchist-influenced writer whose name spawned an adjective for the absurdities of bureaucratic power.

“Our laws are not generally known; they are kept secret by the small group of nobles who rule us … for the laws were made to the advantage of the nobles from the very beginning, they themselves stand above the laws” (Kafka, The Problem of Our Laws)

TV bosses bank scripts due to writers strike threat

TV studio execs in the US might try to nip the potential threat of a writers strike by tucking away scripts or even shooting extra episodes of hit dramas and sitcoms.

Carl DiOrio and Nellie Andreeva reported on Backstage.com that the fledgling plan represents what a key management insider described as "phase one" of studio strike preparations. It's considered more important for TV execs than those in film to get a jump on planning for a possible writers walkout - the current WGA contract expires Oct.

Bevington, Louisa Sarah, 1845-1895

One of Bevington's pamphlets

A short biograpy of English poet and anarchist communist Louisa Bevington.

Louisa Bevington was born into a Quaker family on 18th May 1845, in St. John’s Hill, Battersea. The occupation of her father was described as a “gentleman”. She was the oldest of eight children, seven of whom were girls. She started writing verse at an early age.

Glaser, Georg Katharina, 1910-1995

Georg Katharina Glaser

A short biography of worker, autodidact, writer, anarchist and anti-Nazi German Georg Katharina Glaser.

Georg Katharina Glaser
Born Georg Kreuz Glaser, 30 June 1910 – Germany, died 18 January 1995 - Paris

Georg was born on 30th June 1910, Guntersblum, Rheinhesse, Germany. Georg later changed his middle name which means Cross to that of Katharina in honour of his beloved mother.

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