Graphical Terrorism? Bazooka, Punk and Leftist Politics at Liberation Newspaper in 1970s France
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4495118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Warne (0000-0003-4055-3876, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 212-234 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbs032 |
| OpenAlex | W1967065851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article considers the work of Bazooka, a small art collective comprising artists, graphic designers and strip-cartoonists who worked in Paris between 1975 and 1980. It thereby illuminates connections between youth and politics on the one hand, and emergent youth subcultures such as punk on the other. Its particular focus is on the group’s quasi-terroristic presence at the left newspaper Libération in 1977, and its challenge to key elements of post-1968 leftist practice. Drawing on this challenge, the article argues that debates about the meaning and legacy of the 1960s in general, and 1968 in particular, should incorporate understanding of the 1970s as a key period for the contested transmission of the legacies of 1968, alongside the more common focus on the generational trajectories of the so-called 68ers themselves.
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Key (lock) · Left-wing politics · Meaning (existential) · Media studies · Newspaper · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Punk · Sociology · Subculture (biology) · Terrorism · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |