Art as Far as the Eye Can See

by Paul Virilio

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Author(s)

Paul Virilio

Publication, year

New York : Berg (Oxford int.), 2007

Scope

128 Pages, 19 cm.

ISBN

9781845206116

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Art used to be an engagement between the artist and materials, but now as art practices and mediums have changed, these materials have also changed. Where art used to talk of the aesthetics of disappearance, it must now confront the disappearance of the aesthetic. In the twenty-first century, the new battleground is art as light versus art as matter. In this work, author Paul Virilio argues that this change reflects how speed and politics have been transformed to speed and mass culture. Originally published in French in 2005 by Editions Galleé, under the title ‘Art à Perte de Vue’.

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Remarks

Includes bibliographical ref. and notes.