Baudrillard Art Theory "ordained," The Visual

This thesis intends to fulfill two theoretic tasks: firstly, to define the visuality of object. Baudrillard has been focusing on the relationship between object and subject. Especially in his later peoriod object becomes "fatal object" in Fatal Strategy: object is destined to destroy subject, and to eliminate the boundary between object and subject on the virtual level. For this new visuality of object, Baudrillard has never given a clear definition. Secondly, in the later period, for the relationship between object and people, Baudrillard defines object as fated simulacra. This is an illusionary analytical method and the reflection on it is the second task of this thesis. From the perspective of the research of visual art theory, this thesis discusses the text in Baudrillard's later period, his early literature and the research of other people, in which horizontal research and parallel research are both used.The following are the basic findings of this thesis: fistly, in the later period Baudrillard bases the interpretation of the visuality of object on technical device, an authentic proposition. Secondly, the illusion of object is destroyed by the illusion of technology: with the progress of modern technology, the objective world is digitalized; people pay attention to virtual object but ignore the real object, and the illusion of object is replaced by the illusion of technology. Thirdly, the illusion of art disappeared in simulation: as far as conspiracy is concerned, modern art is the simulation of the simulation of idea, and the super-real art simulacra makes the mysterious illusion of art completely disappear. Fourthly, "reclusive" is the feature of art theory in Baudrillard's later period. It intends to criticize the high-tech simulacra society, but it also has the inner fate and nihility.