{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"The Friends of Cobra and What They Represent\n","author_name":"Guy-Ernest Debord \u25aa \nReuben Keehan (translation)","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"http:\/\/www.contextxxi.at\/the-friends-of-cobra-and-what-they.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='http:\/\/www.contextxxi.at\/the-friends-of-cobra-and-what-they.html'\u003EThe Friends of Cobra and What They Represent\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EIn 1958, something of a conspiracy launched a new avant-garde movement that had the peculiar trait of having been defunct for seven years. Though never presented in clear terms, allusions are made to the continuing existence of none other than Cobra. In some cases an origin is fixed, implying its permanence. Thus, on 18 September, France-Observateur wrote on the painter Corneille: \"At this time (1950), he participated in the founding of the artistic group Reflex, which was slowly \u003Ca href=\"..\/the-friends-of-cobra-and-what-they.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}