Golden Fleet
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The Golden Fleet (
Extremely little is known about the Golden Fleet, yet still it became notorious, this to such an extent that it has been labelled "legendary".[2] Nothing is known about its establishment, composition, and disestablishment. The name was most likely taken from an art exhibit in Denmark by the Situationist Jeppesen Victor Martin, which consisted of geopolitical paintings featuring coastlines, strategic arrows and toy battleships sprayed over with metallic paint.[3] The group was centered in the capital Stockholm, although some members appear to have been from Gothenburg. It is primarily notable through the fact that its members were those that introduced situationist writings to Sweden by its brief but hectic work with publishing political texts. Among them were Instruktion i vapendragning in 1970 (a translation of "Instructions for an Insurrection", originally published 1961), as well as longer translations of texts by Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem among others.[4]
The group also produced a number of works on its own, prominent among them the poster "Hang the
References
- ISBN 978-0-415-06222-0.
- Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ Slater, Howard (2001). Divided We Stand - An Outline of Scandinavian Situationism. London: Infopool.
- ^ Hyllienmark, Olov (10 October 1997). "Jakten på Gyllene Flottan". Känguru (in Swedish).