Vanishing Points

Articulations of Death, Fragmentation, and the Unexperienced Experience of Created Objects

By: Natasha Chuk

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Hardcover | 15 January 2015 | Edition Number 1

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196 Pages

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Using Jacques Derrida's notion of the literary device of the unexperienced experience and building on Paul Virilio's ideas around the aesthetics of disappearance, Vanishing Points focuses on the aesthetic character of presence and absence articulated in contemporary art, photography, film and emerging media.

Including analysis of art works by Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Dina Kantor, Alec Soth, and of the popular HBO television series Six Feet Under, Chuk emphasizes the notion that art is an accident, an event, which registers numerous, overlapping, contradictory orientations, or vanishing points, between its own components and the viewer's perspective, resulting in the power to create un-experienced experiences. This notion, Chuk argues, serves to create a language for the 'unexperienceable' event of death. Incorporatingphilosophical inquiry, film theory, media studies, and art history, Vanishing Points is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary art and its engagement with contemporary philosophy.

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Natasha Chuk is a scholar of media objects, technology, and philosophy, as well as an independent curator.

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