Innocent X by Diego Velázquez

Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X by Francis Bacon, a détournement of the above

In détournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez ( June 6, 1599 &ndash August 6, 1660) was a Spanish painter who was the leading Francis Bacon' (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992 was an Irish-born British figurative painter. The term "détournement", borrowed from the French, originated with the Situationist International; a similar term more familiar to English speakers would be "turnabout" or "derailment", although these terms are not used in academia and the arts world as they are inherently 'anti-art' as they are often blatant theft and sabotage of existing elements. The Situationist International ( SI) was a small group of international political and artistic Agitators with roots in Marxism, Lettrism and the Détournement is similar to satirical parody, but employs more direct reuse or faithful mimicry of the original works rather than constructing a new work which merely alludes strongly to the original. Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject It may be contrasted with recuperation, in which originally subversive works and ideas are themselves appropriated by mainstream media. Recuperation, in the sociological sense (first proposed by Guy Debord and the Situationists) is the process by which "radical" ideas and images are commodified Cultural appropriation is the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group

In the United States Frank Discussion widely known for his use of detournement in his works dating from the late 70s through the present, particularly with the Feederz. The Feederz were a Punk rock band from Arizona. They are infamous for their song Jesus Entering from the Rear which featured on Alternative Tentacles The Feederz were a Punk rock band from Arizona. They are infamous for their song Jesus Entering from the Rear which featured on Alternative Tentacles Détournement's use by Barbara Kruger familiarised many with the technique, and it was extensively and effectively used as part of the early HIV/AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Barbara Kruger (born 1945 is an American conceptual artist She was born in Newark New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. ACT UP, or the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, "is a diverse non-partisan group of individuals. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. ^[1] Examples of contemporary detournement include Adbusters' "subvertisements" and other instances of culture jamming, as well as poems composed collaboratively by Marlene Mountain, Paul Conneally, and others, in which quotations from such famous sources as the Ten Commandments and quotations by United States President George W. Bush are combined with haiku-like phrases to produce a larger work intended to subvert the original source. Adbusters Media Foundation (called Adbusters or the Media Foundation is a Not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn Subvertising refers to the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make a statement A precise definition of culture jamming is elusive It has been called a Resistance movement to Cultural hegemony, whereas some say the defining theme of culture jamming Paul Conneally (born 1959 in the United Kingdom) is a Haiku poet and artist based in Loughborough, UK The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, are a list of religious and moral imperatives that according to Judeo-Christian tradition were authored by God and given The United States of America —commonly referred to as the George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States.

The Neue Slowenische Kunst has a long history of aggressive détournement of extreme political ideologies, as do several industrial music groups, such as Die Krupps, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, and Front 242. Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning "New Slovenian Art" aka NSK, is a controversial political Art collective that Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of Experimental music, especially but not necessarily Electronic music. Die Krupps ˈkʀʊps}} is a German Industrial rock / EBM band formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer &mdashthe band pronounces it both ways are a British music group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends KMFDM are a German Industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian Electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s

References

1. ^ Crimp, Douglas. AIDS Demographics. Bay Press, 1990.

See also

• Comic strip switcheroo
• Culture jamming
• Scratch Video

External links

• Guy Debord, Gil J. Wolman, 1956: A User’s Guide to Détournement
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• sniggle.net: The Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia
• The Ring of Free Trade - a 5 minute detournement of the Fellowship of the Ring
• The God Connection - a détournement of the Ten Commandments
• Essay: Détournement as Negation and Prelude

Books

• McDonough, Tom (2007). The Comic strip switcheroo (also known as the Great Comics Switcheroonie or the Great April Fools Day Comics Switcheroonie) was a series of jokes played out between A precise definition of culture jamming is elusive It has been called a Resistance movement to Cultural hegemony, whereas some say the defining theme of culture jamming Scratch video was a British Video art movement that emerged in the early-mid 1980s the beautiful language of my century. The MIT Press. The MIT Press is a University press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts ( USA) ISBN 978-0-262-13477-4.