Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus

A study of walking as artistic action, from Surrealism to Fluxus.
Walking, that most basic of human actions, was transformed in the twentieth century by Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus into a tactic for revolutionizing everyday life. Each group chose locations in the urban landscape as sites—from the flea markets and bars of Paris to the sidewalks of New York—and ambulation as the essential gesture. Keep Walking Intently traces the meandering and peculiar footsteps of ...