Art and Ventriloquism

Name: Art and Ventriloquism
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ISBN: 9780415370592

ISBN-10: 0415370590

ISBN-13: 9780415370592

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Goldblatt, Garry Hagberg, Saul Ostrow

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In his intriguing new book, David Goldblatt examines what he calls "the complex logic of ventriloquism" and its relationship with art, philosophy and the artistic process. In the conversational exchange between ventriloquist and dummy, Goldblatt recognizes a speaking in other voices, illusion without deception, talking to oneself, effacing oneself as speaker, being beside oneself - the ancient Greek notion of Ecstasisi - and the animation of inanimate objects as an unabashed anthropomorphism. Like ventriloqual dummies, artworks take on personalities, characters of their own, often saying what the artist herself would or could not say in voices distinct from her (our) daily modes of…

Book details

List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/10/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction


Preface



Acknowledgments


Critical commentary



Bergen and McCarthy: the logic of an act


Nietzsche and ventriloquism


Self-spacing: Foucault's ventriloqual tendencies


Socratic ventriloquism: theatricality and the voice of logos


The dislocation of the architectural self


Self-plagiarism: the ecstatic recycling of the artist's voice


Cavellian conversation and the life of art


Epilogue: two ventriloqual paintings


Notes