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Art and Artifice in Visual Culture: Eighteenth Century to the Present

Art and Artifice in Visual Culture: Eighteenth Century to the Present

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Series: Routledge Research in Art History

Art History

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ISBN10: 1032756780
ISBN13: 9781032756783
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2025
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

This edited volume explores the notion of artifice in modern visual culture, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present, in countries around the globe.

Artifice has been regarded as a primarily Western phenomenon, playing as it does a central role in European art theory since the Renaissance. This volume proposes that artifice is better understood as a transcultural artistic phenomenon and requires far broader conceptualization across international contexts. It acquaints readers with works of art, visual modes of communication, and concepts originating in France, Germany, the United States, Japan, and China, and includes painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, film, and virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) objects. Contributors demonstrate how practices of artifice function as both symbol and form, in parallel and divergent ways, in multiple cultural settings.

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