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1 online resource (1 electronic resource (38 pages)) |
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English. |
| Summary |
The preternatural, as explored by these artists, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics. They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable and mineral; living and dead. The confusion between animate and inanimate is a primary concern, a surreality which unites with the preternatural's love for reveling in the mysterious: bizarre fragments, unreadable words, objects of absurd scale, and distortions of the relativity of time and space flourish throughout this exhibition. Preternatural is the catalogue for a multi-site art exhibition (9 December 2011 through 17 February 2012, in Ottawa, Canada) that draws from the idea that art itself is a form of preternatural pursuit, in which the artists participating explore the bewildering condition of being in between the mundane and the marvelous in nature. It questions a world that understands itself as accessible, reachable, and 'knowable' and counters it with a consideration of this heterogenous proposition. |
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Aesthetics.
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History of the arts.
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Exhibition catalogues & specific collections.
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Art -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions.
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Aesthetics
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ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows
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| Indexed Term |
ontology, art, nature, metaphysics |
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Directory of open access books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jeffery, Celin. Preternatural. Brooklyn, New York : Punctum Books, 2011 9781105245022 |
| ISBN |
9781105245022 |
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1105245020 |
| Standard No. |
GBVCP 827335261 |
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