Why would a chair have an essence - its design and it manufacture may describe a chair's essence - but this would not refect its function but perhaps the act of sitting
On 4/11/09 11:35 PM, "armando baeza" <[email protected]> wrote: When one describes a chair, one may say the essence of the chair is ( something to sit on).In an "art experssion" it can be a log, a rock, a stool, a human or any thing one can sit on. What is the essence of a bottle" a flower, a human. I t exist's because you recognize it. You express it's form, which differs from any one else. yours is unique. mando On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > What is the essence, why it exists and how it is formed? > Boris Shoshensky > > ____________________________________________ 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 ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: armando baeza <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Heidegger: truth and art > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:00:36 -0700 > > The purpose of art is to express the essence to your pleasure and sit > back and enjoy. > mando > On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Michael Brady wrote: > >> On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote: >> >>> ""The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they >>> are >>> perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to >>> make objects >>> 'unfamiliar', to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty >>> and length >>> of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic >>> end in itself >>> and must be prolonged." (Shklovsky, "Art as Technique")" >> >> Aha, back to the Russian Formalists and our brief mention of them >> last August! Ta da! >> >> >> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | >> Michael Brady >> [email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ > Always be in contact with a new pager. Click now! > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/ > BLSrjpYRtj8RPa92Zd73ZkE9X2i522 > YEJmFRwOoQy5anA41cIJkv7YgWmw4/ --
