Fictioning: The Myth-Functions of Contemporary Art and Philosophy

by David Burrows, Simon O'Sullivan, David Burrows

Book Overview

Fictioning in art is an open-ended, experimental practice that involves performing, diagramming or assembling to create or anticipate that which does not exist. In this extensively illustrated book containing over 80 diagrams and images of artworks, David Burrows and Simon O'Sullivan explore the technics of fictioning through three focal points: mythopoesis, myth-science and mythotechnesis. These relate to three specific modes of fictioning: performance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474432409
• ISBN13: 9781474432405
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 8.9"