FROM ZOMBIE ART TO DEAD ART. Issue 43 (29th March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Majeed, Raamy
• Is Part Of: Think. Volume 15:Issue 43(2016)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2016-03-29
• Subjects: Philosophy -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1017/S147717561600004X
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-1756

Abstract

Abstract : Zombie art, or salvage art, are artworks that are damaged beyond repair, deemed 'no-longer-art' by insurance companies, and removed from the market and stored at claims inventories due to their purported loss of value. This paper aims to make sense of the notion of zombie art. It then aims to determine whether artefacts that fall under this concept retain any aesthetic value, and whether they can genuinely cease being artworks, i.e. be dead art.