{"product_id":"memoires","title":"Mémoires","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGuy Debord and Asger Jorn created \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMémoires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e just one year after the psychogeographical book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFin de Copenhague\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1957). Inspired by the Dadaist concept of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eflâneur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Debord coined the term \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003epsychogeography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to explore how different places shape our emotions and behaviour. As he wrote: “Psychogeography could set for itself the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction to a Critique of Urban Geography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1955).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMade in just twenty-four hours, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMémoires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e continues this Situationist line of inquiry through a radical rethinking of the illustrated book, combining elements of collage, biography, journalism, and history. The book unfolds in a diaristic mode, where psychogeography meets scraps of city maps, newspaper clippings, cartoons, poetry, photographs, and quotations from Marx, Johan Huizinga, and Prince de Soubise, a sort of \u003c\/span\u003edandy\u003cem\u003e avant la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The fragments of text and image are détourned to form a fragmentary journal, with Jorn applying gestural ink splatters and other brightly coloured marks over each collaged spread.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccording to the myth, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMémoires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, like the earlier \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFin de Copenhague\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, was created by the two artists in a state of complete inebriation. Indeed, the book is punctuated by references to alcohol, such as rhum and Guinness, as well as the phrase “il s’agit d’un sujet profondément imprégné d’alcool” (“It is a subject deeply steeped in alcohol”), which floats across the first page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMémoires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is bound in sandpaper covers, revealing the authors’ iconoclastic intention to damage all the books shelved alongside it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55667275497811,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/DSC4721.png?v=1793264949","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/memoires","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}