An artistic practice conceived by the Situationists for transforming artworks by creatively disfiguring them. In ‘A User’s Guide to Détournement’ (1956), Guy Debord, a key Situationist theorist, and Gil Wolman, argue that détournement has a double purpose: on the one hand, it must negate the ideological conditions of artistic production, the fact that all artworks are ultimately commodities; but on the other hand, it must negate this negation and produce something that is politically educative. It achieves negation in two main ways: either it adds details to existing works, thus revealing a previously obscured ambiguity, or it cuts up a range of works and recombines them in new and surprising ways.
Jason Preu 
Beautiful
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so good! ❤
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thank ya!
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Great !!
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Thank you for coming over to read and comment.
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Fits this, I’d say:
An artistic practice conceived by the Situationists for transforming artworks by creatively disfiguring them. In ‘A User’s Guide to Détournement’ (1956), Guy Debord, a key Situationist theorist, and Gil Wolman, argue that détournement has a double purpose: on the one hand, it must negate the ideological conditions of artistic production, the fact that all artworks are ultimately commodities; but on the other hand, it must negate this negation and produce something that is politically educative. It achieves negation in two main ways: either it adds details to existing works, thus revealing a previously obscured ambiguity, or it cuts up a range of works and recombines them in new and surprising ways.
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guy and gil are my homies!
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No kidding! You went to collage together … ?
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No, but am heavily influenced by the SI and its precursors.
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Not heavily enough, it seems, to notice my deliberate misspelling …
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🙂 reading on mobile! Good one!
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such a fantastic post dud…
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Right on! Thanks so much for reading.
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