Tuesday, July 16, 2024 by DJ Uncertain #readings #art
Situationist Times full scan PDFs. RIP Jacqueline de Jong
Born in the Netherlands in 1939, de Jong is a key figure of the European postwar avant-garde who is now looking back on a career spanning half a century. Her role in the Situationist International marked her early years in Paris in the 1960’s, where she was actively involved in the student and art protests. In parallel to her work as an editor and designer - most notably for The Situationist Times, which she founded and published from 1962 until 1967 - de Jong has developed a unique painterly practice. In its spontaneity, de Jong's expressive, often grotesque and excessive style follows the anti-academic and non-conformist aesthetic of the avant-garde. The artist mixes exuberant collages of narrative, realistic fragments. Her tone can lean towards the absurd and enigmatic, but always with a desire for figuration and physical presence. Expressive yet realistic, her work exhibits uninhibited eroticism and sexual liberation.
Listen to Jacqueline de Jong and MOSTYN, Juliette Desorgues, discuss de Jong's life and work in this 2021 recording:
Full PDF scans of Situationist Times:
The Situationist Times 1, Hengelo (May 1962).
➚PDF (12 mb). ➚Video.
The Situationist Times 2, Hengelo (Sep 1962).
➚PDF (14 mb).
The Situationist Times 3: "International British Edition", Hengelo (Jan 1963).
➚PDF (16 mb).
The Situationist Times 4: "Labyrynth issue", Copenhagen (Oct 1963).
➚PDF (33 mb).
The Situationist Times 5: "Rings and Chains", Copenhagen (Dec 1964).
➚PDF (47 mb).
The Situationist Times 6: "International Parisian Edition", Paris (Dec 1967).
➚PDF (6 mb).