More Real?: Faculty Work. The City College of New York - Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3791352350 ISBN 13: 9783791352350

Publisher: Prestel, 2012

Synopsis

As viewers of The Colbert Report know, we are living in an age of "truthiness"—where things we wish to be true are preferred to things that are known to be true. More Real? features an international contingent of contemporary artists whose work most aptly represents this modern conundrum in a variety of ways, from trompe l’oeil to digital manipulation. A series of scholarly, entertaining, and generously illustrated essays approach the concept of reality from a variety of perspectives: science and technology; the role of the cinema; the "parafictional" in art; diaspora artists from the Middle East; and historical trends from the Age of Reason to our current state. In an age when the relationship between truth and fiction has never been murkier, More Real? explores our constantly changing sense of what is real, and the consequences of not understanding the difference.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

As viewers of The Colbert Report know, we are living in an age of “truthiness”―where things we wish to be true are preferred to things that are known to be true. More Real? features an international contingent of contemporary artists whose work most aptly represents this modern conundrum in a variety of ways, from trompe l’oeil to digital manipulation.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Armstrong is Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of the Center for Alternative Museum Practice (CAMP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Previously, she was Deputy Director for Programs and Chief Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art and the author of Birth of the Cool (Prestel).

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3791352350
• ISBN 13: 9783791352350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Elizabeth Elizabeth Armstrong