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…, we will consider how artists are charting and challenging the false dichotomies that separate real from fictive places and nature from culture or exploring the intermingling of these realms. P.84 | …, we will consider how artists are charting and challenging the false dichotomies that separate real from fictive places and nature from culture or exploring the intermingling of these realms. P.84 | ||
According to curators Jeffrey Deitch and Dan Friedman, all artistic representations of places, even natural landscapes, inevitably have conceptual | According to curators Jeffrey Deitch and Dan Friedman, all artistic representations of places, even natural landscapes, inevitably have conceptual overtones that are based on social constructs. “Even the generations of artists who strove to depict absolute truth in their renderings of nature tended to spiritualize it, romanticize, or intellectualize it.” P.84 | ||
One type of synthetic environment that has inspired a subset of artists is dioramas. These include both models, such as architectural models, model train displays, … The roots of contemporary artists’ dioramas go back to the creation of alternative worlds in the surrealist tradition.( i.e. Joseph Cornell) P.86 | One type of synthetic environment that has inspired a subset of artists is dioramas. These include both models, such as architectural models, model train displays, … The roots of contemporary artists’ dioramas go back to the creation of alternative worlds in the surrealist tradition.( i.e. Joseph Cornell) P.86 | ||
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The exploration of invented environments can include those that exist only in the shared imaginations of the audience. While the set for a television show, for example, truly exists at a specific location (on a lot in Hollywood, perhaps), the environment it represents is somewhere else, a somewhere that may not be anywhere, really. P.88 | The exploration of invented environments can include those that exist only in the shared imaginations of the audience. While the set for a television show, for example, truly exists at a specific location (on a lot in Hollywood, perhaps), the environment it represents is somewhere else, a somewhere that may not be anywhere, really. P.88 | ||
== Placeless Space == | == Placeless Space == |
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