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An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner.
List of contents
Foreword by G. D. Cohen
Introduction
Defining Fictive Art
- Characteristics
- Methods
- Reception
Invented Artists
- Pseudonyms and Personae
- The Alienable Self
Speculative History
- What Counts as History
- Travelers' Tales
Institutions & Movements
- Fictive Museums
- Artist as Institution
- Geofictions and Micronations
- Movements and Religions
Cryptoscience & Taxonomic Inventions
- Fictive Zoology and Paleontology
- Fictive Botany
- Fictive Archaeology
- Taxonomic Inventions
Conclusion: Culture Jamming and Social Media
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the author
Foreword author G. D. Cohen is an artist, curator, and scholar of visual culture.
Summary
An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner.
Foreword
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- Author tour: Southern California
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With Sting in the Tale, Antoinette LaFarge has crafted a masterful study of fictive art — a genre of geofictions, fictive museums, art movements, and invented persona which predate and challenge our current affliction of alternative facts and terrifying political fabulations. At once entertaining and edifying, this scrupulously researched study is a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, bound to generate significant debate for years to come. If Philip K. Dick invented an academic historian to define and taxonomize the interdisciplinary genre of our age, Antoinette LaFarge would be it.
— Thyrza Nichols Goodeve
