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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.