# The Accident of Art

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- Book: [The Accident of Art](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvere-lotringer/the-accident-of-art) ([The Accident of Art.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvere-lotringer/the-accident-of-art.md))
- Authors: [Sylvere Lotringer](https://www.bookquiver.com/sylvere-lotringer), [Paul Virilio](https://www.bookquiver.com/paul-virilio), [Mike Taormina](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-taormina)
- Publisher: semiotext_e
- ISBN: 978-15-8435-020-0
- Pages: 120
- Published: 2005-08-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the " optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Instead,...