Guy. Aux Producteurs de lʼArt Moderne.

by DEBORD

£800 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Debord Makes a Spectacle in Society DEBORD, Guy. Aux Producteurs de lʼArt Moderne. Brussels: International Association of Art Critics . 1958. Single strip of paper (20 x 900 mm); printed in black: ‘Aux producteurs de l’art modern. Si vous etes fatigues d’imiter les demolitions; sil vous apparait que les redites fragmentaires que l’on attend de vous sont depasses avant d’etre, prenez contact avec nous pour organiser a un niveau superieur de nouveaux pouvoirs de transformation du milieu ambient. Internationale Situationniste, 32 Montagne-Genevieve, Paris 5e’; some very light spotting, and slight creasing to edges; very good. One of the first flyers produced by the Situationist International, the European avant-garde alliance of writers, artists, and poets established in 1957, this one by Guy Debord, later the author of The Society of the Spectacle and the ‘most important figure’ of the Situationist movement ( Situationist International Archive ). This response to artists is one of the first works produced by the Situationist International, which succeeded the Lettrist International (1952–1957), and brilliantly encapsulates Debord’s theory of dépassement de lʼart (surpassing of art): ‘The current revival of both modern art and revolutionary politics can only be their surpassing, which is to say precisely the realization of what was their most fundamental demand’ (Debord, trans . Levin, p. 159). This flyer, almost a metre in length, was created as a response by Debord, Pinot-Gall

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