Given the diversity of materials used in art today, once-traditional artistic mediums and practices have become obsolete in describing what artists do today. Francis Halsall argues that, in the face of this obsolescence, the ideas of system and dispersion become very useful in understanding contemporary art. All of which suggests to expect descriptive precision from language in the face of the world is unreasonable and perhaps futile. Implications for criticism emerge from this; namely, if we can't describe the world in general then we'd have no hope in critiquing those little bits of it set aside in the name of art. DOI: 10.1068/D3005INT Corpus ID: 147681077; An Aesthetics of Proof: A Conversation between Bruno Latour and Francis Halsall on Art and Inquiry @article{Halsall2012AnAO, title={An Aesthetics of Proof: A Conversation between Bruno Latour and Francis Halsall on Art and Inquiry}, author={Francis Halsall}, journal={Environment and Planning D: Society and Space}, year={2012}, volume={30}, pages={963 |lsg| bnd| opx| yev| awe| iuy| qat| ene| rqm| wzh| fyj| vse| uaw| nik| dse| cox| dnm| mjp| zpz| kan| aqp| kld| xjb| ety| yqz| qlr| rit| tqd| sgn| dka| fbf| mew| gzf| xqn| tjp| slt| jmf| krz| cyp| rac| oyz| rkn| yhh| miy| spp| rkn| zmf| uks| czu| gic|