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Land/Water
and the Visual Arts
Artists listen, observe,
create images and tell stories. Stories may be based
in documentary research, personal experience, or be
much more speculative, imaginary, fantastic. They may
be told in many different ways. 'Story' often operates
as myth, reflecting normative cultural structures and
re-affirming social order or questioning and unsettling
that which otherwise taken for granted. 'Fiction' suggests
creative modes of expression that, whilst being in some
respects sources in imagination, in other respects offer
insights or 'truths' that in terms of histories, myth
and morality may have all the impact of transcending
that which could be dismissed as 'fact' or information.
Fictions pose questions, intervene, take positions;
they seek to influence change.
Contributors:
Andrew Cross, Jem Finer, Paul Jeff, Lesley Kerman, Liz
Nicol and Ben Tufnell.
Edited
by Liz Wells
and Simon
Standing
Also
in this series:
Surface: Land/Water and the Visual
Arts
Change: Land/Water and the Visual
Arts
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