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- ISBN
- 9781570272691
- Book Title
- Lives of the Orange Men : a Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Art, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Europe / Eastern, Art & Politics, History & Theory, Political Process / Political Advocacy, World / European
- Item Weight
- 15.8 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 334 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Autonomedia
ISBN-10
1570272697
ISBN-13
9781570272691
eBay Product ID (ePID)
167567415
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lives of the Orange Men : a Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement
Number of Pages
334 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Europe / Eastern, Art & Politics, History & Theory, Political Process / Political Advocacy, World / European
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
15.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Lives of the Orange Men presents eyewitness reports and primary documents of the Orange Alternatives cultural activism. Their ideological masquerade, predating The Yes Men and Reclaim the Streets, baffled police and stymied the disintegrating regime of General Jaruzelski. What more could anyone ask except to remind readers that there is no freedom without dwarves!Greg Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, "Lives of the Orange Men presents eyewitness reports and primary documents of the Orange Alternative's cultural activism. Their ideological masquerade, predating The Yes Men and Reclaim the Streets, baffled police and stymied the disintegrating regime of General Jaruzelski. What more could anyone ask except to remind readers that there is no freedom without dwarves!" - Greg Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, "The streets of Wrocław were a magical place to be, once upon a time... Communism's melting away in Eastern Europe in 1989 cannot be understood without the Orange Alternative. So listen to Major Fydrych - This book teaches the mystical tongue of the Orange Men and unveils their rites. Long live the dwarves!" - Padraic Kenney, author of A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989, The streets of Wroclaw were a magical place to be, once upon a timeCommunism's melting away in Eastern Europe in 1989 cannot be understood without the Orange Alternative. So listen to Major Fydrych This book teaches the mystical tongue of the Orange Men and unveils their rites. Long live the dwarves!Padraic Kenney, author of A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
Dewey Decimal
322.440943852
Synopsis
Between 1981 and 1989 in Wroclaw Poland, in an atmosphere in which dissent was forbidden and martial law a reality, the art-activist Orange Alternative movement developed and deployed their socialist sur-realismin absurd street-painting and large-scale performances comprising tens of thousands of people dressed as dwarves, in an effort to destabilize the Communist government. It worked. Beginning with the dialectical paintingof dwarves onto the patches of white paint all over the citys walls, which uncannily marked the censorship of opposition slogans, the group moved on to both stage happenings and over-enthusiastically embrace official Soviet festivals in a way that transformed both of these into mass expressions of dissent. They illegally restaged the mass spectacle of the storming of the Winter Palace on the anniversary of the October Revolution using their own homemade tanks; organized patriotic gatherings in which anyone waving red flags or wearing red (or eating red borscht, or covering oneself in ketchup) was arrested; and inspired other Orange Alternative groups to appear across the country. Although the group existed to the left of the mainstream opposition of Solidarity, their art was a key, acknowledged factor in the overthrow of the Communist government. Lives of the Orange Men tells the story of the movements main protagonists, and is the first stand-alone English-language account of the Orange Alternative, written autobiographically by is central figure, and featuring an appendix of newly-translated key texts including Majors Manifesto of Socialist Surrealism, a timeline of every Orange Alternative happening and a new foreword from the Yes Men., From 1981-89 in Wroclaw, Poland, in an atmosphere in which dissent was forbidden and martial law a reality, the art activist Orange Alternative movement deployed their 'socialist surrealism' in absurd street painting and massive performances. It worked. Lives of the Orange Men tells the story of the movement's main protagonists, and is the first standalone English-language account of the Orange Alternative, written by is central figure and featuring an appendix of newly-translated key texts, a timeline of every Orange Alternative happening and a new foreword from the Yes Men., From 1981-89 in Wroclaw, Poland, in an atmosphere in which dissent was forbidden and martial law a reality, the art activist Orange Alternative Movement deployed their 'socialist surrealism' in absurd street painting and massive performances. It worked. 'Lives of the Orange Men' tells the story of the movement's main protagonists, and is the first standalone English-language account of the Orange Alternative, written by is central figure and featuring an appendix of newly-translated key texts, a timeline of every Orange Alternative happening and a new foreword from the Yes Men.
LC Classification Number
HN537.5
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4
Copyright Date
2014
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