Antoinette LaFarge

Sting in the Tale

Art, Hoax, and Provocation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Doppelhouse Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 659g
• ISBN-13: 9781733957953
• ISBN-10: 1733957952
• Artikelnr.: 60074051

Autorenporträt

Foreword author G. D. Cohen is an artist, curator, and scholar of visual culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by G. D. Cohen
Introduction
Defining Fictive Art
* Characteristics
* Methods
* Reception
Invented Artists
* Pseudonyms and Personae
* The Alienable Self
Speculative History
* What Counts as History
* Travelers' Tales
Institutions & Movements
* Fictive Museums
* Artist as Institution
* Geofictions and Micronations
* Movements and Religions
Cryptoscience & Taxonomic Inventions
* Fictive Zoology and Paleontology
* Fictive Botany
* Fictive Archaeology
* Taxonomic Inventions
Conclusion: Culture Jamming and Social Media
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index