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For my third and last post on the lithographs published by Situationist Times in 1967, I�d like to look at the surprising number of artists from Latin America who were involved. At a guess, this reflects the influence of the Haitian artist Herv� T�l�maque (see previous post), who was a very active mover and shaker on the Paris avant-garde scene, though the list of artists also includes two giants from an earlier generation, the Surrealists Wifredo Lam and Roberto Matta. Jos� Gamarra (Uraguayan, 1934- ) Untitled composition Lithograph, 1967 Mariano Hernandez (Spanish/Argentinian, 1928- ) Untitled composition Lithograph, 1967 Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902-1982) Untitled composition Lithograph, 1967 Wifredo Lam Surrealist composition Lithograph, 1979 Lea Lublin (Argentinian, 1929-1999) Untitled composition Lithograph, 1967 Alejandro Marcos (Spanish/Argentinian, 1937- ) Untitled composition Lithograph, 1967 Cristina Martinez (Argentinian, 1938- ) Untitled composition Lithograph, 1967 Roberto Ma

The Situationist International was a loose affiliation of European political radicals, socialists and anarchists, which existed between 1957 and 1972. The two leading Situationists were the philosopher Guy Debord (author of The Society of the Spectacle) and the Danish artist Asger Jorn. Although they were a small, fringe group, the Situationists had a profound affect on the European counterculture and the development of avant-garde art in the 1960s�much more so than the superficially similar Yippies in the USA. The essential aim of Situationism is neatly summed up in the title of the Situationist manifesto published by the Scottish writer Alex Trocchi in 1962, Invisible insurrection of a million minds. Or, in the words of a famous graffito that appeared on Paris walls during the �v�nements of May 1968, �Be realistic�demand the impossible!� Asger Jorn (Danish, 1914-1973) Untitled composition Lithograph, 1967 Despite the importance of Asger Jorn to the movement, the Situationists were mo