DUTCH COUNTERCULTURE ] Item Item 26 [ BERNETT RARE BOOKS ON THE ARTS PENKA AND VISUAL CULTURE Provo and Dutch Counterculture and was followed by the hippie movement, the Dutch Second-Wave Feminism (Dolle Mina) anarchist group Kabouters, various squatter movements, and ultimately Dutch Punk. Provo was a Dutch counterculture movement active in 1965–1976 that sought to provoke The present group contains complete runs of violent responses from municipal authorities Provo’s major periodicals and pamphlet series, via non-violent methods and absurdist hu- as well as a wide range of related publications mor. Provo was founded on May 25, 1965, by by the “provotariat.” It documents Provo’s im- anti-smoking activist and performance artist pact not only in Amsterdam, but in Brussels, Robert Jasper Grootveld, together with the Den Haag, Groningen, Maastricht, Rotterdam anarchist philosophers Roel van Duijn and and elsewhere. Rob Stolk. It evolved from anti-smoking and anti-war happenings of the early 1960s, and Finally, we offer a significant group of jour- would come to epitomize the Netherlands as nals, publications, and ephemera document- a site of international protest and counter- ing the important Dutch second-wave feminist culture movements. The movement officially group Dolle Mina (Mad Mina), named in honor disbanded just two years later, on May 13, of Dutch feminist Wilhelmina Drucker (1847– 1967, reacting to broad public sympathy and 1925), including numerous broadsides and internal differences among members. Provo a complete run of the two feminist journals had been preceded by the Nozem subculture, Evolutie and Borsing. Bernett Penka Rare Books LLC 144 Lincoln Street Boston, MA 02111 Tel.: +1 (617) 350-7778
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