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Although well-known for his founding of the avant-garde Situationist Worldwide motion and his notable political and social activism, Guy Debord was nevertheless a remarkably challenging and enigmatic figure, spending his last years within an isolated farmhouse in Champot, Italy. Andrew Merrifield's Guy Debord forces back the shutters and opens a window onto Debord's existence, concept, and art.Merrifield examines the character of Debord's works and ideas, such as the innovative Howls for Sade and his 1967 classic, The Society of the Spectacle. Debord recognized existence as artwork, Merrifield proposes, and through that contact he chronicles Debord's stint as an innovative leader in the 1950s and 1960s, his amount of time in Spain and Italy throughout the 1970s and the reclusive decades prior to his death in 1994.Dada and Surrealism's heritage and punk-rock's lord, Guy Debord spun ideas on democracy, individuals, and political energy that still resonate today, producing Merrifield's brief yet thorough research an useful source on among the foremost intellectual revolutionaries of the twentieth-century.