The institutionalisation of CoBrA as a Dutch national modern art [...]; today then this
national content means provincial, when Europe itself is only the minimum
starting point for the progress of a new culture, the first that poses itself in terms of world unity.
Guy Debord, Notes pour le « manifeste » contre Cobra
Their lack of ideological rigor, the limitation of their pursuits
to largely plastic experimentation, and above all the absence
of a comprehensive theory of the conditions and perspectives
of their experience led to their breaking up.
Guy Debord, Rapport sur la construction des situations