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A new living architecture: the situationalists, the urban space, the revolution

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The history of the Situationalist International movement is examined. The author argues the Situationalists built their movement on radical concepts of revolutionary art which criticized everyday life, however, failed in their endeavors to build their model of new urbanism.

Author: Marelli, Gianfranco
Publisher: University of Southern Mississippi
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2000
Management, Architects, City planning, Urban planning

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Thoughts on Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project

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The art work of outsider architect Tyree Guyton is discussed. The author, maintaining she was transformed by his work, examines his Heidelberg Project which symbolizes the urban poverty of the Detroit African American community and the efforts to transcend it.

Author: Whitfield, Jenenne
Publisher: University of Southern Mississippi
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2000
United States, Poverty, African American artists

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The pebblestones of freedom

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The history of rock sculpture in France is discussed. The author maintains the work grew from the peasantry and has become a contemporary form of outsider architecture and os symbolic of the common man's quest for freedom.

Author: Maurice, Jean-Francois
Publisher: University of Southern Mississippi
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2000
Usage, History, Sculptors, Sculpture, Liberty, Freedom, Rocks

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Subjects list: Social aspects, France, Architectural design, Portrayals, Works
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