Thursday, June 11, 2009

Errol Morris: Bamboozling Ourselves Pt. 2

Bamboozling Ourselves (Part 2)

ERROL MORRIS: I’m fascinated by your use of “The Uncanny Valley.”

EDWARD DOLNICK: That’s one of my favorite parts of the book. But I wasn’t sure whether it should be included in the book. I was on the fence about it. I thought it might be too indulgent.

ERROL MORRIS: Indulgent?

EDWARD DOLNICK: Well, it’s a digression. You’re talking about paintings and forgery and what oil paintings look like, and then you say: let me tell you a cool thing about robots! Before this new spate of Van Meegeren books, they always squeezed him into a frame that I don’t think fits, that he was like other forgers, that he did these close copies, that he tried to make his forged Vermeers look like real Vermeers. If you really looked at Van Meegeren’s Vermeers, you would see that Van Meegeren’s story couldn’t be that story, even though people told it that way. [1]

ERROL MORRIS: Could you explain to me the concept of “The Uncanny Valley,” as you use it in your book? Read more…

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