“This belief that the viewer suffers from an epistemological lack…”

“This belief that the viewer suffers from an epistemological lack that will be corrected by the artist brings the orthopedic aesthetic into surprising proximity to the rhetoric of advertising, which promises viewers access to a more prestigious or enlightened social identity if they engage in the requisite act of consumption.” (88)

-Grant Kester, Conversation Pieces

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