Phantom Avant-Garde: A History of the Situationist International and Modern Art

In Phantom Avant-Garde: A History of the Situationist International and Modern Art, scholar and curator Roberto Ohrt presents the first critical chronology of this artistic movement and its era. With energy and insight, he tackles a trenchant history of modern art since 1945, covering painting, literature, film, architecture and action. Ohrt traces the connections from the Situationist International to late Surrealism, the Lettrist International, COBRA, the Nouveaux Realistes and Pop Art, and offers an indispensable index of works with up-to-date biographical details on the key figures of the S.I.Born in Chile. Ohrt has edited, written and curated internationally, and currently divides his time between Paris and Hamburg.