This innovative book is an interaction based on a series of interviews between the artist Ralph Rumney and the writer Alan Woods. Rumney's extraordinary life is chronicled here, as well as his works over the last 45 years. He is the only British founder-member of Situationist International, and the lone founder of the London Psychogeographical Society. Complementing the open elements of play and discovery inherent in Rumney's psychogeography is an almost Duchamp-esque interest in the applicability of games. This volume contains over 100 illustrations, many of which have not been previously reproduced.

The Map Is Not the Territory

Literature & Fiction

Woods, Alan

RUMNEY, Ralph

History & Criticism

Manchester University Press

Throughout his adventurous life, Ralph Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths with every avant-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney’s traveling companions Guy Debord, Pegeen Guggenheim, Asger Jorn, Michèle Berstein, Bernard Kops, Yves Klein, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, Félix Guattari, E.P. Thompson, Victor Brauner, and many others are recalled in the oral history with sharp intelligåence and dry wit.
Profusely illustrated with Rumney’s own photos, paintings, and collages and other documentary materials.
"The Consul regains that magnificent freedom that a handful of people enjoyed and shared with artists, writers and others, in a world whose password was total, unfailing rejection of the world." Judith Brouste, Art Press
"…fine compendium of the most poetic of political writings, albeit still a partial measure for fans, followers and future revolutionaries awaiting the complete translations of the journal Situationist Internationale." Publishers Weekly
Ralph Rumney (1934 - 2002), was the sole member of the London Psychogeographical Society, a founding organization of the Situationist International (1957). He is the author of The Leaning Tower of Venice, a fabled psychogeographical exploration of that city.
Malcolm Imrie is a literary agent and translator whose translations include Guy Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle and Josè Pierre's Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions 1928 - 1932.

The Consul (Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time, Vol. II)

History

City Lights Publishers

The Consul: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and its Time, Volume 2: Conversations with Gerard Berreby with the Help of ... International and Its Time Vol II

Travel

Verso

LE CONSUL - ENTRETIENS AVEC GERARD BERREBY

Essays & Correspondence

ALLIA

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