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Situationalist International
Test your knowledge of this group concerned with cultural politics
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2011

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Term
S.I. was formed of THE LETTRIST INTERNATIONAL and which other group?
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imaginist bauhaus
Term
S.I. was formed of THE IMAGINIST BAUHAUS and which other group?
Definition
the lettrist international
Term
It arose from which three objectionable movements?
Definition
Surrealism and Marxism
Also Consumer Society
Term
What did S.I intend to do better than Surrealism?
Definition
Supercede the aesthetic
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What did S.I intend to do better than Marxism
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Defy the Communist structures
Term
Name the Lettrist International's main man
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Guy Debord
Term
Name the Imaginist Bauhaus's main man
Definition
Asgar Jorn
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What seminal text did Debord write?
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Society of the Spectacle
Term
Who wrote "Society of the Spectacle?
Definition
Guy Debord
Term
What did Society of the Spectacle spark and when?
Definition
Student riots of 1968
Term
What affiliation that S.O.T.S had was responsible in particular for the student riots of '68
Definition
Worker's councils
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Situationalist International was active between when and when?
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1957-1972
Term
What endured from the Situationalist International after its finish in '68?
Definition
The Society of the Spectacle
Term
What does S.O.T.S claim were the two currents that marked the end of modern art?
Definition
Dadaism and Surrealism
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What did Debord accuse Dadaism and Surrealism, as their fatal shared weakness
Definition
A fatal one-sidedness. Dadaism sought to abolish art without realizing it, surrealism sought to realize art with abolishing it
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What two thing did the S.I work out must be done to transcend art
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Abolish it AND realize it
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What did Debord define as 'spectacle'?
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"Capital accumulated to such a degree that it becomes an image"
Term
Name the four cultural strategies of Situationalism
Definition
derive, "psychogeography", detournement, and "unitary urbanism"
Term
Define 'Derive'
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"A drifting". Literally wandering through the city in order to subvert the capitalist city. The Baudelairean connoisseur of leisure, the Flaneur - becomes the Situationist critic of leisure
Term
Define 'Psychogeography"
Definition
This might follow from a 'derive' or drift. "A study of the specific effects of an environment on the emotions and behaviour of individuals. E.g "The Naked City", 19 reordered sections of a Paris map according to one such hypothetical itinerary
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Define "Unitary Urbanism"
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Derive and Psychogeography point to Unitary Urbanism, or " the combined use of arts and crafts to create a social environment in direct reference to experiments in social behaviour. E.g Constant's "New Babylon" i.e the Megastructure which floated above the city and could be reordered according to users needs like lego
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Define "Detournement"
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To use already existing or historical artistic production into a superior construction of a social environment. Detourner meaning "to convert" - or to subvert. Derived from Surrealist and Dadaist collage. This was not considered to be art, nor was it antiart, it's status is put into question
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Name two important series/exhibitions of Detournement
Definition
Pinot Gallizio - 'Industrial Paintings'. Enormous rolls of formulaically painted canvas. A parody of Capitalist production and consumption (could be bought by the metre)
Asgar Jorn - 'Modifications". Flea market paintings with Jorn's subversive overpainting. Kitsch art - has Jorn made it relevant again by turning it into signs? Or is this idea kitschy in itself (rehearsing the old avante garde and therefore reinforcing it's fallacy
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"Painting is over...Long live painting". Who said this and what could he mean by it?
Definition
Asgar Jorn 1959. Like the old king, painting may be dead, but like the new king painting may live on - not as an idealist category that never dies but as a materialist corpse that rots subversively
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Asgar Jorn produced a series called "new disfigurations". Name a key painting from this series and describe its significance
Definition
"The Avante Garde Doesn't Give Up". This painting could be a statement of intent/defiance or it might be poking fun at the pathetic status of the belated artist using outmoded concepts (Duchamp, moustachioed Mona Lisa)
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