The Accident of Art (Paperback)

"There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. This "accident" is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive." --Paul Virilio, "The Accident of Art" Urbanist and technological theorist Paul Virilio trained as a painter, studying under Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Bazaine and de Stael. In "The Accident of Art," his third extended conversation with Sylvere Lotringer, Virilio addresses the situation of art within technological society for the first time. This book completes a collaborative trilogy the two began in 1982 with "Pure War" and continued with "Crepuscular Dawn," their 2002 work on architecture and biotechnology. In "The Accident of Art," Virilio and Lotringer argue that a direct relation exists between war trauma and art. Why has art failed to reinvent itself in the face of technology, unlike performing art? Why has art simply retreated into painting, or surrendered to digital technology? Accidents, Virilio claims, can free us from speed's inertia. As technological catastrophes, accidents are inventions in their own right.

General

Imprint:	Semiotext(e)
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Sylvere Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor) • Paul Virilio
Translators:	Mike Taormina
Dimensions:	222 x 167 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	119
ISBN-13:	978-1-58435-020-0
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	1-58435-020-2
Barcode:	9781584350200

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