Is art moving away from the symbol in order to confront the real as Bourriaud suggests?
I don’t know if I have the breadth of knowledge to begin to answer my own question, but, I am skeptical at this notion. All images are symbols. Simply from my understanding of language, we as humans must think symbolically. We associate “things” (in the broadest of terms) with meaning. For instance, apple pie, apple, thanksgiving, the harvest, holiday, family, feasting, plenty, ritual, and so on and this may or may not be different for all people. To say that art has or is moving away from symbol or meaning seems to me a horribly generalized statement. I disagree respectfully I suppose. What about you all?
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