Carol Starr wrote:i received this post and sent a simple answer ( it leaves
the viewer
> free to
> see and experience unimpeded by a title)
> > So, here a question that I have often gotten an answer for, but the
> > answer always seems inadequate:
> >
> > Why do poets and painters not name their work?
> >
Why? Because the thing is sometimes its own name. Sometimes a name is part
of the the entity, sometimes the entire entity is its name. Sometimes it's
important that name and named are apart, sometimes name and named are
self-same. And there are things that are nameless, or that have secret
names. Words for things are not their names (they are words that we use to
designate them; names proper have more odd and complex functions than simple
designation).
It's an interesting question, but it would be nice to ask it less
querulously. Is the person asking often querulous, Carol? Or is my
perception of said whininess purely a figment of my imagination?
AK
