Abstract

The authors address art production in the 1980s as evidence of a crisis of representation based on the ambiguous distinction between fiction and reality in a society overwhelmed by consumer/media generated images. Jacob considers the effects of market forces on art practices. Rorimer asserts that the use of photography and language by 80s artists developed the innovations of 60s artists towards a deconstruction of social practice. Singerman refers to Barthes, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Derrida and Foucault in a critique of (post-) structuratist theories of the sign. Circa 250 bibl. ref.

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