On 4/9/09 10:32 AM, "Chris Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:
Where do we find Heidegger speaking about "the relationship between form, subject, style, materiality, composition, point of view, scale, aesthetics, ethics, rhetoric,conception, etc." ? in his writings on poetry - the totality of a persons analysis is not to be found in a single essay - no matter how badly you want the condensed version Heidegger tells us that "art is the becoming and happening of truth" -- so aren't you just a little disconcerted, Saul, when the "truth" that he recognizes in the Van Gogh painting is probably not there at all ? The truth may be though the narrative he would like tos ee there may not be - the truth that he purports to be there is that objective truths ( I the Kantian sense) exist within a context not in the abstract - in his interpretation of van gogh's shoes he attempt to address this notion of being within - it is this you have to prove is not there And do you really think that "the god is present" in every Greek temple, as Heidegger tells us ? The greek gods are - show me how they are not - the greek gods as mythological beings are ideological constructs - so you want to argue that the greek temple isn't And, since Heidegger likes to contemplate how words are commonly used -- hasn't the the word "art" been usually chosen to memorialize the importance of that difference ? Heidegger demonstrates that art originally resided in teche - standardized knowledge and that the vernacular misconstrues this as do you BTW, Saul, might you present an example of an image that cannot be "complex and represent a knowing - a source of self reflective experience" a photograph of you ***************************** >I'm not speaking of just the literary narrative that one can attribute to aimage - I'm talking about the relationship between form, subject, style,materiality, composition, point of view, scale, aesthetics, ethics, rhetoric,conception, etc. to say that something is a mere image does not mean you can not have associations - means that they are not complex and do not represent a knowing- a source of self reflective experience ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 ____________________________________________________________ Don't work harder, work smarter. Get info on an Online Bachelors here. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxXkaoFyvTGPPM7omZD1hSfTs PUntEtvbP0f8U669Z2oYcg6w64AGs/ --
