Niklas Luhmann Quote

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself?


p. 145 - Art As a Social System (2000)


In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves...

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves...

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves...

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves...