{"id":5569,"date":"2013-11-26T12:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2013-11-26T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T17:54:05","slug":"art-as-investigation-in-which-facts-are-created-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5569","title":{"rendered":"Art as Investigation In Which Facts Are Created, Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The trouble is that modern art in various ways abandoned imitation, representation, naturalism, and it now has to make out a case for its products\u2019 still being truth. This is where science\u2014certain aspects of science\u2014are seized upon, assimilated, or sometimes simply plagiarized in decorative words, so as to bolster up art\u2019s claim to cognitive value. One such use\u2014and it is a curious reversal of Aristotle\u2014is the boast of factuality: the work of the artist is said to be research; his creations are findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Jacques Barzun, The Use and Abuse of Art (1971)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maureen Mullarkey expounds on this remarkable idea in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/maureen-mullarkey\/2013\/11\/26\/art-in-the-mantle-of-science\/\">one contemporary art exhibit series, <i>Weak<\/i>Force.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble is that modern art in various ways abandoned imitation, representation, naturalism, and it now has to make out a case for its products\u2019 still being truth. This is where science\u2014certain aspects of science\u2014are seized upon, assimilated, or sometimes simply plagiarized in decorative words, so as to bolster up art\u2019s claim to cognitive value. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Art as Investigation In Which Facts Are Created, Changed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}