AHIS BC 3626y Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Guy Debord, Abstract Expressionism, American Pop
25 Aug 2016
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Detournement- detour, derail, take something and by adding something else change and swerve the meaning. The struggle today is over images and perception. The emergence of the spectacle came in the late 1920s but then exploded in the post war era. The emphasis is not on how well something functions but based on aesthetic and how it looks. Debord analyzes the new society in terms of media: he defines spectacle as (cid:498)capital condensed in such a degree that it becomes an image(cid:499) This consists of 19 sections of paris map and. Guy debord, the naked city, 1957 includes a psychic dimension reordered. If you can reorder an environment you can reorder the psyche of that area. Unitary urbanism-the ideal urban environment, a space of unity. Has its roots in surrealism and dada. Transitions to british and american pop art. Rather than simple appropriation, these paintings were meant to didactically de-value/re-value meaning.
