Art was once considered the science of science, able to reveal nature’s secrets in the finest detail. But nature had other ideas, and was to prove a jealous guard of its greatest secrets. The clockwork precision that Bacon, Newton and others appeared to have revealed would, in the course of time, prove equally illusory – or, at least, intrinsically elusive. All of a sudden, insuperable limits were imposed upon observation and representation; and art – nature’s self-appointed biographer – found itself with nothing to recount. Deluded and frustrated, art set off across uncharted waters in search of new treasures to bring home, but all too soon it was to find itself throwing overboard all that it had once valued, just to keep afloat.

And Narcissus returns to die in the arms of chance / Bertasio, Danila. - In: YEARBOOK OF THE ARTIFICIAL. - ISSN 1660-1084. - STAMPA. - 5:(2008), pp. 47-63.

And Narcissus returns to die in the arms of chance

BERTASIO, Danila
2008-01-01

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Art was once considered the science of science, able to reveal nature’s secrets in the finest detail. But nature had other ideas, and was to prove a jealous guard of its greatest secrets. The clockwork precision that Bacon, Newton and others appeared to have revealed would, in the course of time, prove equally illusory – or, at least, intrinsically elusive. All of a sudden, insuperable limits were imposed upon observation and representation; and art – nature’s self-appointed biographer – found itself with nothing to recount. Deluded and frustrated, art set off across uncharted waters in search of new treasures to bring home, but all too soon it was to find itself throwing overboard all that it had once valued, just to keep afloat.
2008
9783039114764
And Narcissus returns to die in the arms of chance / Bertasio, Danila. - In: YEARBOOK OF THE ARTIFICIAL. - ISSN 1660-1084. - STAMPA. - 5:(2008), pp. 47-63.
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