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Sting in the tale : art, hoax, and provocation / Antoinette LaFarge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LaFarge, Antoinette, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conceptual art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (451 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, California : DoppelHouse Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Defining Fictive Art
- Part I: Characteristics
- Generative Fiction
- Evidentiary Objects
- Authoritative Framing
- Self-Outing
- What It Is Not
- Part II: Methods
- Worldmaking
- Camouflage
- Fakery
- Part III: Reception
- Hoaxes
- Pseudo-Events
- Tricksterism
- Invented Artists
- Part I: Pseudonyms and Personae
- Four American Artists
- Mary O'Shea and Sophie La Rosière
- Anabella Gaposchk and the SNK
- Shimmel Zohar
- Nat Tate
- Ern Malley
- Darko Maver
- Luther Blissett
- Georg Paul Thomann
- Johann Dieter Wassmann
- Arturo Ott and the Manual of Lost Ideas
- Part II: The Alienable Self
- Princess Caraboo
- Grand Duchess Anastasia
- Roberta Breitmore
- CarianaCarianne and Breyer P-Orridge
- Lonelygirl15
- World-Integrated Social Proxy
- Speculative History
- Part I: What Counts As History
- Thomas Rowley
- The Oera Linda Book
- Cornelia Lumsden
- Ivan Istochnikov
- Yves Fissiault
- Ernst Moiré and the Chadwicks
- Safiye Behar
- The Atlas Group
- The Valaco Archive and Grupo Anarquitectura
- Tulse Luper
- Part II: Travelers' Tales
- George Psalmanazar
- Donald Crowhurst's Last Race
- The Airplane Machine Shop Company
- Eisbergfreistadt
- The Joint Photographic Survey
- Institutions &
- Movements
- Part I: Fictive Museums
- The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles
- The Museum of Contemporary Ideas
- Klaus Peter Schnüttger-Webs Museum
- The Museum of Jurassic Technology
- The Museum of Innocence
- The John Affey Museum
- The Museum at Purgatory
- The Museum of Forgery
- Part II: Artist as Institution
- The New Society for Universal Harmony
- The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society
- The Institute of Militronics &
- Advanced Time Interventionality
- The Mars Patent.
- The Institute for the Study of Perpetual E.motion
- Part III: Geofictions and Micronations
- Gregor MacGregor, Prince of Poyais
- Donald Evans's Stamps
- Pink Gaffes and F.I.R.E.
- Money as Art
- Part IV: Movements and Religions
- Disumbrationism
- Spectrism
- O-ism
- Neoism
- Fictive Science &
- Taxonomic Inventions
- Part I: Fictive Zoology and Paleontology
- Fictive Fossils
- The Speculative Dinosaur Project
- The Institute of Critical Zoologists
- Part II: Fictive Botany
- A Field Guide to Surreal Botany
- Parallel Botany
- Part III: Fictive Archaeology
- The Civilization of Llhuros
- The Hokes Archives
- The Bronze Age c. 3500 B.C.-A.D. 2017
- The Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
- Part IV: Taxonomic Inventions
- The Voynich Manuscript
- The Codex Seraphinianus
- Conclusion: Culture Jamming &
- Social Media
- Alan Abel
- RTMark and the Yes Men
- When a Lie Is No Longer a Lie
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781954600058
- 1954600054
- OCLC:
- 1264472725
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