Meanwhile, I haven't yet seen where any of them (Heidegger/Shapiro/Derrida) have addressed the issue of why Van Gogh's shoe paintings are more like 'works of art' than the millions of other recognizable images of shoes that can be found.
They all address why it is a work of art in that they all propose that the van gogh is not ta picture of shoes butmore and because of this as a painting it is more than a mere image - it is this more-ness that allows for a unfolding or an unpacking of the work that makes it art - - in that the work of art (its labor) resides in the fact that it can not be known in its totality and it can not be reduced to a singularity - but opens us to possibilities - potentialities that can not and are not bound by language - ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | http://www.cia.edu/ The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
