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3 unusual facts about Cosio di Arroscia


Cosio

Cosio di Arroscia, an Italian municipality in the Province of Imperia, Liguria

Cosio di Arroscia

In 1957 the French Avant-Garde Groupe Situationist International was founded in Cosio di Arroscia by former members of two other avant-garde groupes, the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus (Asger Jorn, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio a.o.) and the Lettrist International (Guy Debord a.o.).

Michèle Bernstein

Bernstein and Debord visited Cosio di Arroscia in July 1957: the Situationist International officially came into being there on July 28.



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