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Reconstruction of “Internationale Situationniste (I.S.)”: Art-Politics of I.S. and I.S. as an Integrated Avant-Garde

Miyeon Park 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study tries to consider the art concept of I.S. as an object of research in art history. To this end, this study attempts to analyse carefully the twelve bulletins named as ‘Internationale situaionniste’, which were published from 1958 to 1969 in France. I.S. has been discussed in relation to post-modern discourses and subculture theory in art history. But, this study exposes that this general thinking that post-modern discourses and sub-cultural theory got a theoretical nourishing from I.S.’theory is a mere misunderstanding, which was formed as a result of unfounded inference and of hasty generalization. This study aims at proposing an integrated concept that is ‘art-politics’ of I.S. by revealing that art and politics are not incompatible elements but the only goal of the revolution for IS. Specifically, this study proposes I.S.’ thinking about art as a practice, through analysing concepts of ‘situation’, ‘situationist’ and ‘international’. In this process, this study illuminates that situationists claimed ‘all-out anti-formalism’ through art as practice, art as process and anonymous artists group while criticizing capitalist commodification and fetishism of art objects and mythicization of artists in capitalist art system. In addition, this study observes a strategical meaning of art-politics in I.S. through ‘détournement’ and ‘dérive’ which were not only aesthetic techniques but also political strategies. Through this, this study emphasizes intention of I.S. that was to overcome the failure of the previous avant-garde and to propose a vision as a new avant-garde by modifying the goal of the avant-garde from ‘integration of life and art’ to ‘realization of art politics through practice in everyday life’. This study is a project for recontructing of I.S. who claimed the possibility of an integrated avant-garde by reconsidering the history of avant garde which were separated in art and politics.

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