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Art and Ventriloquism (Hardcover)
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Art and Ventriloquism (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
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In his intriguing new book, David Goldblatt examines what he calls
"the complex logic of ventriloquism" and its relationship with art,
philosophy and the artistic process. In the conversational exchange
between ventriloquist and dummy, Goldblatt recognizes a speaking in
other voices, illusion without deception, talking to oneself,
effacing oneself as speaker, being beside oneself - the ancient
Greek notion of Ecstasisi - and the animation of inanimate objects
as an unabashed anthropomorphism.
Like ventriloqual dummies, artworks take on personalities,
characters of their own, often saying what the artist herself would
or could not say in voices distinct from her (our) daily modes of
expression. Goldblatt uses ventriloquism as an apt metaphor to help
understand a variety of artworld phenomena - how the vocal
vacillation between ventriloquist and dummy work is mimicked in the
relationship of artist, artwork and audience, including the ways in
which artworks are interpreted. Moreover, Goldblatt uses the
concept of ventriloquism to generate insights into many of our
important philosophers' writings on the arts, discussing the work
of Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Cavell, Wittgenstein, among
others.
Featuring a critical commentary by Garry L. Hagberg and preface by
series editor, Saul Ostrow.
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