By Andre Bertrand, a pro-Situationist student at the University of Strasbourg. Named after Buenaventura Durruti (misspelled by Bertrand as "Durutti") who, in 1936, led a column of anarchist troops in Spain. Cf. Lecture by Gene Ray at the ACC Gallery, Weimar, on May 14, 2007, entitled "Situation event process: ’new genre public art’ and radical politics.
Description:
An assemblage of detourned cartoons, photos, and reproduced artworks that describe the election of members of the Federated General Association of Strasbourg Students to the student union at the University of Strasbourg. Page [4] contains an advertisement for the publication, "De la misere en milieu etudiant consideree sous ses aspects economique, psychologique, politique, sexuel, et notamment intellectuel, et de quelques moyens pour y remedier.
Publisher:
Association federative generale des etudiants de Strasbourg
Subject (Topic):
Student movements --France --Strasbourg --20th century --Pictorial works
Manière de découvrir les qualités d'une personne par le tirage des cartes and Scrutateur
Description:
A fortune-telling game to determine what a person is like by drawing from a deck of cards and then consulting charts printed in the book., Stamp: J.O. Wedberg. Blind stamp: [illegible] Bibliotheket, Stockholm., and There are eight pages of charts for different types of people (that is, children, young adults, young men, young women, husbands, wives, widowers, and widows). Each chart is divided into five columns.The first column lists personal or physical characteristics, and the following four columns correspond to the four suits of the cards (in order: heart, club, diamond, spade). Under each of those columns are descriptive adjectives. On pages following the charts are seven lists of questions, with from 10 to 40 answers each, to be asked of the players, to further reveal their characters and predict their future. One player is designated to be the "scrutateur" --the scrutinizer-- who will begin the game by choosing a characteristic to be revealed and then a person to draw a card and compare it to the chart of his or her type.