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Sting in the Tale - Art, Hoax, and Provocation (Paperback)
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Sting in the Tale - Art, Hoax, and Provocation (Paperback)
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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
impostures dating from the 17th century, LaFarge offers the first
comprehensive survey of this practice. The shift from the early
information age to our "infocalypse" era of rampant misinformation
has made fictive art an especially radical form as it straddles the
lines between fact, fiction, and wild imagination. Artists deploy a
wide range of practices to substantiate their fictions,
manufacturing artefacts, altering photographs, and posing as
experts from many different fields. A fictive-art practitioner
herself, LaFarge explores and underscores the myriad ways art can
ground or destabilize one's lived reality, forcing us to question
our subjective experience and our understanding of what counts as
evidence. Many examples of these curious and sometimes notorious
fabrications are included - from nonexistent artists and peculiar
museums to cryptoscientific objects like fake skeletons and staged
archaeological evidence. From the intriguing Cottingley fairy
photographs "captured" in 1917 by teenage sisters, to the Museum of
Jurassic Technology; from the work of artists like Iris Haussler,
Joan Fontcuberta, and Eva and Franco Mattes to the enigmatic
encyclopedia known as the Codex Seraphinianus, fictive art
continues to reframe assumptions made by its contemporaneous
culture. With all the attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage,
and rejection, fictive art practitioners both past and present play
upon the fragile trust that establishes societies, underlining the
crucial roles played by perception and doubt.
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