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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"parafiction"”.
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Damien Hirst's Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable: Parafiction in the Age of Truthiness
… by British artist Damien Hirst is a parafiction. Parafiction is fiction presented as fact and is the concept by which I develop my analysis of these works and their exhibition. This thesis examines the context of the artworks in connection with simulacra, hyperreality, and historical …
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Contemporary art and the search for history—the emergence of the artist-historian
… three begins with by investigating the terms parafiction and truthiness, and then discusses those terms—from hoax to plausibility, from less true to truer—in the context of Zaatari’s and Park’s works. To contextualize the fictional narratives employed by the two artists, I use the terms …