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Paradox

René Magritte




La Trahison des Images
("Ceci n'est pas une pipe"),
1928-29

 




This is a piece of cheese, 1937
   



"Ceci n'est pas une pomme"

Ben Vautier



"Je suis un menteur", 1959



     "il n'y a pas de vérité", 1988



"il faut se méfier des mots", 1993

Fluxus

The instructions for this piece are on the other side of this sheet.
The instructions for this piece are on the other side of this sheet.

Henry Flynt, January 1961.
(Two sides of instruction sheet.)
To perform this piece do not perform it.

Tony Conrad, Summer 1961

Do not abide by your decision.

Dick Higgins: Danger Music Number Thirty-Two (for George Maciunas), April 1, 1963


Art & Language


 


Art & Language: Two Black Squares
(Paradoxes of the Absolute Zero), 1966

William Anastasi




"I don't want this on my wall." 1998

Literature on Paradox and Circularity


Peter Aczel: Non-Well-Founded Sets. CSLI Lecture Notes, Number 14. Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1988.

Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy. The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Jon Barwise and Lawrence S. Moss: Vicious Circles. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1996.

Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach. An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1979.

Patrick Hughes and George Brecht: Vicious Circles and Infinity. A Panoply of Paradoxes. London: Jonathan Cape, 1975.

Klaas Schilder: Zur Begriffsgeschichte des "Paradoxon". Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung Calvins und des nach-kierkegaardschen "Paradoxon". Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1933.
   


Compiled by Remko Scha, 2002-2007