Donald Barthelme’s “Report” and Michal Rovner’s Decoy series, or the Ongoing Art of Telling It Slant
This article examines how two contemporary artists, American writer Donald Barthelme and Israeli filmmaker and photographer Michal Rovner use overexposure in order to denounce forms of televisual “brain damage.” In Barthelme’s short story, the emphasis is on excess and satire, whereas in Rovner’s Gu...
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| description | This article examines how two contemporary artists, American writer Donald Barthelme and Israeli filmmaker and photographer Michal Rovner use overexposure in order to denounce forms of televisual “brain damage.” In Barthelme’s short story, the emphasis is on excess and satire, whereas in Rovner’s Gulf War images, media representations of war are deconstructed through the use of overexposed and blurred imagery. |
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| title | Donald Barthelme’s “Report” and Michal Rovner’s Decoy series, or the Ongoing Art of Telling It Slant |
| title_full | Donald Barthelme’s “Report” and Michal Rovner’s Decoy series, or the Ongoing Art of Telling It Slant |
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