Sting in the Tale
Art, Hoax, and Provocation
An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert fictive-art practitioner.In her groundbreaking book, internationally recognized multimedia artist and writer Antoinette LaFarge reflects on the most urgent question of today: where does truth lie, and how is it verified? Encouraging readers to critically question the role art plays in shaping reality, Sting in the Tale: Art, Hoax, and Provocation defines a new genre of art that fabricates evidence to support a central fiction. Interweaving contemporary fictive art practice with a lineage of hoaxes and imp…
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- ISBN: 978-1-954600-05-8
- EAN: 9781954600058
- Produktnummer: 36832203
- Verlag: DoppelHouse Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: over 170 B&W illustrations with spot color and 16 color plates
Über den Autor
Antoinette LaFarge is an internationally recognized new media artist with a special interest in speculative fiction and alternative histories. She has authored several books, including Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) and Monkey Encyclopedia W (ICI Press 2018). Her writing and artwork have appeared in Art Journal, Wired, Leonardo, Ada, Gnosis, the Southern Quarterly, the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, and elsewhere, as well as in anthologies from MIT Press, Oxford University Press, and other international presses. She is a longtime contributor to Wikipedia, where she focuses on filling gaps in coverage of women and people of color.
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