Rumney, Ralph. The Leaning Tower of Venice. Paris: Silverbridge, 2002. 36 p.; ill.; 20 x29 cm.; blue cover with text in black. Limited and numbered edition of 368. In the 18 copies of the special edition on old Lana, one page in the last chapter (La stampa non é l’impronta) carries the hand print of the author in gold leaf with his signature. In the edition of 350, the hand’s imprint is screen printed on Centaure paper by the Charnière printer
“The first complete reproduction of Ralph Rumney’s seminal contribution of the International Situationist Movement’s conception of Psychogeography. This detournement of ‘fotonovella’ which Rumney realized in Venice in 1957, was meant to be published in the first issue of the International Situationist Review. In the preface, Ralph Rumney recounts all the misfortunes of this famous work of art which had disappeared under unclear circumstances and became invisible for many years” (Silverbridge)
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« This detournement of ‘fotonovella’ which Rumney realized in Venice in 1957, was meant to be published in the first issue of the International Situationist Review. »
Realized in 1957 ? Really ? it’s not exact otherwhise what did this detournement not been published in June 1958 in the first issue of the International Situationist Review ?
It is true indeed, though Rumney didn’t quite finish putting everything together until late 1958. Thus, the text was not published in Internationale Situationniste 1 (June 1958) as announced in Potlatch #29, and ended up appearing in Ark magazine (Royal College of Art), no. 24, 1958. Rumney’s exclusion from the IS is documented in Internationale Situationniste 1: http://debordiana.chez.com/francais/is1.htm#venise
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