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This book is the third in a new series of publications on contemporary art instigated by Vanessa Ohlraun and inaugurated by the Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University in 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

A codex for con artists? Or, an ethics of disappointment! -- Criticism hurts -- Faith, money, love : on letters of indulgence, the technicalities of betrayal, and the advantages of sleepwalking -- Magic she does : on the work of Danai Anesiadou -- Why is art met with disbelief? It's too much like magic -- Vox pop : on the work of Karl Holmqvist -- A deserters' heartland : with Katarina Zdjelar -- Mouth to mouth : on the work of Alina Szapocznikow -- You took the words right out of my mouth : on the furious resistance against being addressed as a subject wanting emancipation -- The anti-angelic host : on Virginia Woolf and the politics of hosting -- Historic desire unbound : on the work of Paulina Olowska -- P.S.--!