----- Original Message -----
From: "William Conger" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:42 PM
Subject: art and speech or writing
If you had to choose, do you think visual art is more like speech or like
writing? Why?
wc
Approaching this dichotomously seems to miss something important. It just
depends.
Writing - fixed, static, separated from the world (this doesn't hold for
James Joyce, but I had in mind expository writing)
Michelangelo Buonarroti exemplifies what I associate with writing.
Speech - fluid, open, responsive to the world as it occurs, sensuous (you
can hear the intake of breath, and saliva on lips)
DuChamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2" exemplifies what I associate
with speech.
Mikc Mallory
