I don't think that's a real term. It really doesn't mean anything. All art builds on what came before to a certain extent.
Painters have a better handle on this. Robert Rauschenberg was so influenced by Willian deKooning, it was driving him crazy. So he marched over to deKooning's studio w/ an eraser in hand and told him about this. The outcome was that they both looked through deKooning's drawings to find a suitable one, and Rauchenberg erased most of it. He then exhibited it under the title Erased deKooning.
Made quite a stir in the art world. He was showing how everything that comes before can and will influence us now, whether we're consciously aware of it or not. It was his way of trying to get dKooning out of his system. An art purge, if you will.