Monday, February 24, 2014

Detournement

Detournement is the use of pre-existing material recreated in a new context. There are 2 types of detournement: minor, where the original is not changed but is minor enough that the context is completely different, and deceptive, where the subject matter is taken in larger more significant pieces and significantly altered to fit a new context. I feel like detournement falls into the same category, as most others have said, as appropriation, also, satire, parody, and spoof. Essentially it is just taking from the past and reestablishing in the present.



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