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Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing is a book by Italian writer, curator, and artist Alfredo Cramerotti. Recognizing the "blurring of margins between artistic and information practices" as a main feature in contemporary culture, This is a mind-blowing and fantastic book that offers audiences with fresh perspective and insight on the interdisciplinary between art and journalism, throughout the book, author illustrated ideas about how artist employ journalistic  techniques to make their own artwork, using interviews, public records, documentary footage, and photo captions to create work addressing social, economic, and political topics that usually fall within the purview of journalism. also, he talked about the effects of investigative journalism on the working methods of a number of artists like Hans HaackeMartha Rosler, Lukas Einsele, Laura Horelli, Renzo MartensAlfredo JaarRenée Green, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, and Bruno Serralogue. who employ these"investigative approach", including the use of fieldwork, reportage, interviews, document analysis, graphic mapping, and information distribution. these instances are able to remind the audiences of that There is a huge gap between the reality and its representation, so as an artist we should focus on the experimentation of representation.

 

moreover, aesthetic journalism can be deemed as a Methodology, in which artists adopt journalistic approaches to conduct research, of which outcomes take shape in the art context, rather than through media channels, overturning both the tradition of journalism and art.

 

 

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