An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’
Aug 10, 2016 · Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La société du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The...
The Society of the Spectacle - Modern Art Terms and Concepts
Guy-Ernest Debord was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, and artist. In 1950, at the age of 19, he joined the radical Paris-based collective of artists and intellectuals known as the Lettrists, founded in the mid-1950s by Romanian-born poet and artist Isidore Isou.
Guy Debord - Wikipedia
Guy-Ernest Debord (/ d ə ˈ b ɔːr /; French: [gi dəbɔʁ]; 28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, critic of work, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International.
GUY DEBORD - Artforum
WHILE THE NAME of Guy Debord has become one of the mindlessly repeated mantras of the past four decades via the invocation of his important and influential Society of the Spectacle (1967), he is little read and even less understood.
Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle: Are We Defined
Apr 2, 2023 · Guy Debord investigates the “society of the spectacle”: a time where images, billboards, advertising, and consumerism are encouraged and omnipresent. Is there a way to avoid the capitalist spotlight?
Situationist International Movement Overview | TheArtStory
Guy Debord's concept of détournement emphasized superimposing revolutionary content on mainstream images and text to subvert commodity capitalist culture.
Psychogeography - Tate
The term psychogeography was invented by the Marxist theorist Guy Debord in 1955 in order to explore this. Inspired by the French nineteenth century poet and writer Charles Baudelaire’s concept of the flâneur – an urban wanderer – Debord suggested playful and inventive ways of navigating the urban environment in order to examine its ...
Guy Debord - Artnet
Mar 1, 2023 · View Guy Debord’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Guy Debord - Drawing Matter
For Guy Debord, in particular, the maps, ideal and real, that traced the settlement of the earth, and the aerial photographs that viewed these settlements in all their three-dimensional complexity, were charged with more than their official origin.
Guy Debord—An Art of War - Drawing Matter
Nov 29, 2023 · In May 1957, the year before The New Theatre of Operations in Culture was published, Debord had his renowned psychogeographic maps printed in Copenhagen, employing other figurations of urban space seen from the sky: fragments of a Paris map from a bird’s eye view, designed by Georges Peltier. [1] .