From Fountain to Moleskine: The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Producibility

by Maurizio Ferraris

Photography was invented in the mid-nineteenth century, and ever since that moment painters have been asking what they are there for. Everyone has their own strategy. Some say they do not paint what is there, but their impressions. Others paint things that are not seen in the world, and therefore cannot be photographed, because they are abstractions. Others yet exhibit urinals in art galleries. This may look like the end of art but, instead, it is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004407561
• ISBN13: 9789004407565
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"