| Title | Death of Horror |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Amanda Beech(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53288/0280.1.04 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/diseases-of-the-head/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Amanda Beech |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2020-09-24 |
| Page range | pp. 71–111 |
| Print length | 41 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Amanda Beech is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. Using a range of compelling rhetorical and often dogmatic narratives and texts, Beech’s artwork poses questions and propositions for what a realist art can be in today’s culture; that is, a work that can articulate a comprehension of reality without the terminal mirror of a human identity that is used to picture it. Beech has shown her artwork and presented her writing at major international venues including: This Time, a video commission for the Remai Modern, Canada 2017, Covenant Transport Move or Die at The Baltic Center for Contemporary Art 2016, and Sanity Assassin, in Neocentric, at Charim Gallery, Vienna, Austria 2016. Other recent work includes her comic strip “Realism and Its Discontents,” Art Margins 7, no. 1 (February 2018), as well as critical essays for the anthologies Realism, Materialism, Art (Sternberg Press, 2015), Speculative Aesthetics (Urbanomic, 2015), and catalogue essays for the Irish and Montréal Biennales Agitationism and L’Avenir (both 2014). She is Dean of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts.