Accident of Art
Accident of Art There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. What I call the "optically correct" is…
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Accident of Art
There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake.
This "accident" is provoking a reversal of values. Instead, they've masked this failure with commercial success. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive.--Paul Virilio, The Accident of ArtUrbanist and technological theorist Paul Virilio trained as a painter, studying under Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Bazaine and de Stael.
In The Accident of Art, his third extended conversation with Sylv re Lotringer, Virilio addresses the situation of art within technological society for the first time. This book completes a collaborative trilogy the two began in 1982 with Pure War and continued with Crepuscular Dawn, their 2002 work