Professor Carrie Lambert-Beatty is a contemporary art historian. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard. She's the author of some of the most influential arts writing of the 21st century, including the award-winning book Being Watched, Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s and the essay, Make Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility (pdf). Carrie is also a co-editor at the illustrious arts theory journal October.
Her current research is on 30 years of fiction presented as fact in contemporary art, asking what happens when artworks deceive their audiences? What do the experiences of artists’ trickery teach about contemporary ways of knowing? And how can contemporary art help in developing a progressive epistemic set, one able to counter the culture of post-truth and to resist an epistemic return to order?
Artworks mentioned:
A Tribute to Safiye Behar (2005) by Michael Blum
Nike Ground (2003) by Eva & Franco Mattes
He Named Her Amber (2007) by Iris Häussler
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives Its Audience?
Faculty page: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/carrie-lambert-beatty
Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/lambert-beatty
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13. Parafiction - Carrie Lambert-Beatty