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dc.contributor.advisor | O'Connor, Mary | - |
dc.contributor.author | Prus, Benjamin Peter Fodden | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-26T16:52:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-26T16:52:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11-16 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22299 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation draws upon Western literature in critical theory, aesthetics, art theory, and art history to explore how lying can foster aesthetic experience and the sociopolitical effects of this experience. It nominates the idea of pseudology—lying as an art—and outlines its distinguishing features from the dawn of postmodernism to contemporary practices. This study demonstrates an analysis of lying premised on an understanding of aesthetics as caught up in the wider issues of public pedagogy and everyday politics. Taking as case studies specific works of Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, VALIE EXPORT, and Carol Duncan, this dissertation argues for the narrative framing of artwork as paramount for its reception. As well, by examining the artistic mystifications of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, Joshua Schwebel, and Iris Häussler, this dissertation analyzes the use of pseudology in institutional critique. The study finds that perfidious practices can point to the importance of the relational boundary between what is real/unreal, highlight the social construction of this boundary’s aesthetic aspects, and reveal the ways in which each of us are active in the construction of a shared reality. Ultimately, our active framing of everyday life and the affective nature of our construction of a shared reality has been problematized by a contemporary prevalence of lying in the realms of public culture and politics. Pseudology reveals the power of narrative framing. The pseudological artworks discussed here expose, as models for the political aesthetic of lying, the need to debate the very tenets of reality constantly and continually—an essential civic action in the ethical, communal relationships of a democracy. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | pseudology, lying, contemporary art, postmodernism, performance, installation, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, VALIE EXPORT, Carol Duncan, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, Joshua Schwebel, Iris Häussler, Donald Trump | en_US |
dc.title | PSEUDOLOGY: LYING IN ART AND CULTURE | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English and Cultural Studies | en_US |
dc.description.degreetype | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
dc.description.layabstract | An analysis of the use of lying as an artistic technique. | en_US |
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