Sting in the Tale
Subtitle: Art, Hoax, and Provocation
Publisher: DoppelHouse Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781733957953
Subjects: Art
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: Defining Fictive Art; title: Part I: Characteristics; title: Generative Fiction ♦ Evidentiary Objects ♦ Authoritative Framing ♦ Self-Outing ♦ What It Is Not; title: Part II: Methods; title: Worldmaking ♦ Camouflage ♦ Fakery; title: Part III: Reception; title: Hoaxes ♦ Pseudo-Events ♦ Tricksterism; title: Invented Artists; title: Part I: Pseudonyms and Personae; title: Four American Artists (Guillaume Bijl) ♦ Mary O’Shea and Sophie La Rosière (Iris Häussler) ♦ Anabella Gaposchk and the SNK (Mariana Tres) ♦ Shimmel Zohar (Stephen Berkman) ♦ Nat Tate (William Boyd) ♦ Ern Malley (James McAuley and Harold Stewart) ♦ Darko Maver (Eva and Franco Mattes) ♦ Luther Blissett (Multinym) ♦ Georg Paul Thomann (Johannes Grenzfurthner) ♦ Johann Dieter Wassmann (Jeff Wassmann) ♦ Arturo Ott and the Manual of Lost Ideas (Institute of Cultural Inquiry); title: Part II: The Alienable Self; title: Princess Caraboo (Mary Willcocks) ♦ Grand Duchess Anastasia (Franziska Schanzkowska) ♦ Roberta Breitmore (Lynn Hershman Leeson) ♦ CarianaCarianne and Breyer P-Orridge (Double identities) ♦ lonelygirl15 (Mesh Flinders, Miles Beckett, and Greg Goodfried) ♦ World-Integrated Social Proxy; title: Speculative History; title: Part I: What Counts As History; title: Thomas Rowley (Thomas Chatterton) ♦ The Oera Linda Book ♦ Cornelia Lumsden (Vera Frenkel) ♦ Ivan Istochnikov (Joan Fontcuberta) ♦ Yves Fissiault (Eve Andrée Laramée) ♦ Ernst Moiré and the Chadwicks (Lytle Shaw and Jimbo Blachly) ♦ Safiye Behar (Michael Blum) ♦ The Atlas Group (Walid Raad) ♦ The Valaco Archive and Grupo Anarquitectura (G. D. Cohen) ♦ Tulse Luper (Peter Greenaway); title: Part II: Travelers’ Tales; title: George Psalmanazar ♦ Donald Crowhurst’s Last Race ♦ The Airplane Machine Shop Company (Leslie J. Payne) ♦ Eisbergfreistadt (Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick) ♦ The Joint Photographic Survey (Adam Ryder); title: Institutions & Movements; title: Part I: Fictive Museums; title: The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles (Marcel Broodthaers) ♦ The Museum of Contemporary Ideas (Peter Hill) ♦ Klaus Peter Schnüttger-Webs Museum (Ulrich Tillmann) ♦ The Museum of Jurassic Technology (David Wilson) ♦ The Museum of Innocence (Orhan Pamuk) ♦ The John Affey Museum (Clair Le Couteur) ♦ The Museum at Purgatory (Nick Bantock) ♦ The Museum of Forgery; title: Part II: Artist as Institution; title: The New Society for Universal Harmony (Lenore Malen) ♦ The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society (Zoe Beloff) ♦ The Institute of Militronics & Advanced Time Interventionality (Suzanne Treister) ♦ The Mars Patent (Claudia Reiche and Helene von Oldenburg) ♦ The Institute for the Study of Perpetual E.motion (Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda); title: Part III: Geofictions and Micronations; title: Gregor MacGregor, Prince of Poyais ♦ Donald Evans’s Stamps ♦ Pink Gaffes and F.I.R.E. ♦ Money as Art; title: Part IV: Movements and Religions; title: Disumbrationism (Paul Jordan-Smith) ♦ Spectrism (Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, and Marjorie Allen Seiffert) ♦ O-ism (Jim Shaw) ♦ Neoism; title: Fictive Science & Taxonomic Inventions; title: Part I: Fictive Zoology and Paleontology; title: Fictive Fossils (Joan Fontcuberta, Beauvais Lyons) ♦ The Speculative Dinosaur Project ♦ The Institute of Critical Zoologists (Robert Renhui); title: Part II: Fictive Botany; title: A Field Guide to Surreal Botany (Janet Chui and Jason Erik Lundberg) ♦ Parallel Botany (Leo Lionni); title: Part III: Fictive Archaeology; title: The Civilization of Llhuros (Norman Daly) ♦ The Hokes Archives (Beauvais Lyons) ♦ The Bronze Age c. 3500 B.C.—A.D. 2017 (Hauser & Wirth) ♦ The Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable (Damien Hirst); title: Part IV: Taxonomic Inventions; title: The Voynich Manuscript ♦ The Codex Seraphinianus (Luigi Serafini); title: Conclusion: Culture Jamming & Social Media; title: Alan Abel ♦ RTMark and the Yes Men ♦ When a Lie Is No Longer a Lie; title: Notes ♦ Bibliography ♦ Index ♦ Acknowledgments