Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pendás, María González

Titel

Introduction: Cons, Scams, and the Arts–Aesthetics and Techniques of Delusion

Ist Teil von

• Social research, 2018-12, Vol.85 (4), p.823-826

Ort / Verlag

New York: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• delusions and illusions are important components in the making of art works and structural maneuvers in the art world itself. If one were to find a connecting thread in artists’ ambitions across times, geographies, media, styles, and contents, it may very well be a persistent urge to fabricate illusions, to establish equivocal relations between the form and the content of the work of art, and between the mind and the senses of the beholder. For the objects, images, experiences, and spaces derived from aesthetic programs are invariably invested in multiple possible narratives and strategies of deceit. Answers to questions of what the work of art “is,” what it “represents,” and what it “means” are never straightforward, nor are they related in any inevitable or necessary manner. Rather, they interact in a game of ambiguities, optical illusions, conceptual deceptions, and many other forms of mirage that are routine artist techniques.