On May 6, 2010, at 7:30 PM, joseph berg wrote: > Does that mean that every medium has limitations?
How are you or Foreman using "absolutely" and "truthful"? Every representation, from a picture or map to the idea in your head, is less than the original. Something has to be condensed, abbreviated, left out, consolidated, etc. That alone is not "absolutely truthful," by which I mean not entirely and point by point identical to the original. Representers ask for a tacit agreement that a certain degree of approximation is necessary in order to make the work, and viewers either accept that degree of approximation or not. That speaks to the absolute part. Truthfulness refers to the intention of the person who utters the representation and not to the materials he or she uses. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
