Where to go from here
Psychogeography meanders through and overlaps with many disciplines in the arts and elsewhere. Here are a few related topics you may wish to consider in relation to the subject or explore more deeply.
Fluxus
Fluxus is an experimental art movement and philosophy that originated in the 1960s. Fluxus centers around performance events or happenings that are simple yet provocative.
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Fluxus by
ISBN: 0500974225A catalog of fluxus art and related objects with accompanying illustrations. Includes an introductory essay about the movement’s origins and aims. Captures the essence of an art practice that is often difficult to pin down and define. -
Flux Film [DVD] by
A video of fluxus art compiled by the movement’s founder, George Maciunas. An anthology of 41 short films that celebrate and playfully explore fluxus. A great way to get a feel for the movement’s many expressions.
Situationists
The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.
Theory of the Dérive and other situationist writings on the city by Guy Debord. ISBN: 978-8489698215. Shelf mark: 709.04065/THE.
This anthology brings together key texts from this important movement in 20th century architectural theory, art, and politics. The writings included in Theory of the Derive, many published here in English for the first time, are predominantly critical texts, revealing Situationism's aims, focus, breadth of vision, and development.
The first section of the issue contained previously unpublished critical texts, and the second section contained translations of primary texts that had previously been unavailable in English. The emphasis was on the SI's profound engagement with the art and cultural politics of their time (1957-1972), with a strong argument for their primarily political and activist stance by two former members of the group, T. J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith
Land Art
Also known as Earthworks and Environmental Art, Land Art is an art movement with origins in the 1960s that emphasizes sculptural and conceptual work within the natural landscape. Land artworks frequently bend nature while also allowing nature and weather to bend and mold them back.
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Land Art by . ISBN: 9783822856130. Shelf mark: 741.9/LAI
A detailed survey of land art that tracks the art form’s history from the 1960s to today with an illustrated timeline. Offers interpretations, images, and artist biographies for some of land art’s most important works. -
Land Art by ISBN: 9781854376046. Shelf mark: 735.23/TUF
A comprehensive chronology and overview of land art. Examines a wide variety of artists and the ways in which they have worked with the natural landscape.
Land Art. A Cultural Ecology Handbook. ISBN: 9780901469571. Shelf mark: 735.23/LAN
Compendium of essays, dialogues and commissioned projects by artists, ecologists, cultural theorists, activists and curators exploring art's varied modes of response to notions of territory, the Earth, land and environment.
