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- Title
- Abstraction. Sick
- Author(s)
- Tofts, Darren
- Abstract
- What would be the ultimate compliment for an exhibition devoted to abstraction in the digital age? A ripped remix of key phrases by Ihab Hassan or George Steiner on the aesthetics of silence, a surround sampling of Susan Sontag’s styles of radical will? No. In the early 21st century, abstraction is sick. Let me tell you why. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Essay
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- RealTime, No. 70 (Dec-Jan 2005), p. 24
- Publication year
- 2005
- Keyword(s)
- Abstract art; ACMI; Aesthetics; Art exhibitions; Australian Centre for the Moving Image; Media arts culture; Melbourne; New media; Review
- Publisher
- Open City
- ISSN
- 1321-4799
- Publisher URL
- http://www.realtimearts.net/article/70/7982
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2005 Darren Tofts. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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