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May 16, 2010
Eric
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I must've been seduced by the semiotexte packaging on this one as I do not remember the purchase impetus and a quick scan through reveals it's mostly interviews, always a bad sign. This is one of those closet-clearing collections of essays and interviews of an important thinker who elsewhere articulates his/her ideas in a much superior form. As such, it suffers from severe redundancy, the same topics handled in different essays, and at least 2 entire pages are duplicated in their entirety.
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Jun 20, 2007
I
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It's a great look into the always interesting, sometimes contradictory mind of Baudrillard. I mostly read art criticisms on a basic (read newspaper and magazine) level, so this is gives me an interesting perspective about the "sham" that is modern art. Though I disagree with some of his points (Warhol is a good artist, but he is hardly the pinnacle of modern art), I am intrigued by his questions about the durability of modern art, its role, and the hijacking of his ideas by the art wor
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Jun 07, 2008
Lindsay
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When I first this book I was just entering the world of post-modernism, and more critical art theory.
I love his writing style. It is completely embellished and pretentious, but it is almost as if you are reading a play and you need to approach it from a similar standpoint to that.
There are some really affecting concepts that changed the way I think about art.
I am an artist through and through, but it is good to question the place and function that art has in the world.
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I love his writing style. It is completely embellished and pretentious, but it is almost as if you are reading a play and you need to approach it from a similar standpoint to that.
There are some really affecting concepts that changed the way I think about art.
I am an artist through and through, but it is good to question the place and function that art has in the world.
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Dec 17, 2009
Michael
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This book has lots of filler, but there are a few articles and essays that make it more than worth your while. "Radical Thought" is essential Baudrillard, as is "Aesthetic Illusion and Disillusion." "Towards the Vanishing Point of Art" and "The Violence of Indifference" are also good reads. Like a lot of Baudrillard, this book is sometimes brilliant, sometimes way over the edge; my advice would be to skip a chapter if it starts making you want to blind you
Aug 12, 2008
Marcella
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a little too catholic on it's point of view. but you get to find baudrillard's "dirty" past involving artaud.
basically the artists that count in his opinion are warhol and bacon.
he also doesn't understand the first thing about art using digital mediums.
basically the artists that count in his opinion are warhol and bacon.
he also doesn't understand the first thing about art using digital mediums.
Jul 22, 2008
Blair
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Good overview of Baudrillard's theories on Hyperreality and the state of art in today's society.
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