A sense of uncanniness invades the visitor of late American sculptor Duane Hanson's first survey show in London since 1997 at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London. That discomfort works at two levels. The first one is cognitive and has to do with the question of whether this is art or not. The second is rather phenomenological and refers to the compulsion of the contemporary museum goer to construct social distinction. This need to differentiate oneself from other is obvious in the rather co...
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The Huffington Post - 11 Aug 2015 23:03
A sense of uncanniness invades the visitor of late American sculptor Duane Hanson's first survey show in London since 1997 at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London. That discomfort works at two levels. The first one is cognitive and has to do with the question of whether this is art or not. The second is rather phenomenological and refers to the compulsion of the contemporary museum goer to construct social distinction. This need to differentiate oneself from other is obvious in the rather co...
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