The Aesthetics of Authenticity
Medial Constructions of the Real
As a concept that increasingly gains importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a site of tearing tensions between the fictional and the real, original and fake, margin and centre, the same and the other.
The essays collected in this volume explore this paradoxical nature of authenticity in the context of various media. They give ample proof of the fact that authenticity, which depends on giving the impression of being inherent or natural, found not created, frequently turns out to be the result of a careful aesthetic construction that depends on the use of identifiable techniques with the aim of achieving certain effects for certain reasons.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Exploring the Empty Plinth
Seiten 9 - 22 -
Fragmentations
Authenticity as an Aesthetic Notion
Seiten 25 - 40 -
Found Objects
Seiten 41 - 62 -
Monolithic Authenticity and Fake News
Seiten 63 - 90 -
Authentic Bodies
Seiten 91 - 118 -
Contestations
»The Real Thing«
Seiten 121 - 140 -
Real Lives - Living Wild
Seiten 141 - 162 -
Monica Ali and the Suspension of Disbelief
Seiten 163 - 184 -
Performances
Poet and the Roots
Seiten 187 - 206 -
The Dilettantish Construction of the Extraordinary or the Authenticity of the Artificial
Seiten 207 - 236 -
»Brooklyn Zack Is Real«
Seiten 237 - 260 -
Authentic Simulacra or The Aura of Repetition
Seiten 261 - 280 -
Contributors
Seiten 281 - 284
23. April 2012, 284 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-1757-3
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