Charles Taylor,
“Epiphanies of Modernism,”
Chapter 24 of Sources of the Self
(Cambridge U. Press, 1989, p. 477) —
“… the object sets up
a kind of frame or space or field
within which there can be epiphany.”
See also Talking of Michelangelo.
Related material for comedians —
Literature ad absurdum —
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Saturday, September 17, 2016
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For those who prefer comedy —
Other toys: Archimedes at Hiroshima and related posts.
In memory of Wallace Stevens, a not-so-gay tournamonde —
Beware, beware, her flashing eyes, her floating hair:
"Tony Stark: That's how I wished it happened.
Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing, or BARF.
God, I gotta work on that acronym.
An extremely costly method of hijacking the
hippocampus to . . . clear traumatic memories. Huh."
Another acronym — AIEEE !
"… the beautiful object
that stood in
for something else.”
— Holland Cotter quoting an art historian
in The New York Times on May 13
From a post of April 27, 2020 —
“The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity,
the whole meaning of which lies within the shell
of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical
(if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted),
and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside
like a kernel but outside….”
— Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
The beautiful object —
Something else —
* The title is a reference to other posts now also tagged Art Issue.
In memory of an art historian who reportedly died on May 6 —
What he loved about the art of the Baroque,
he told Ms. Soboleva, was that
“it was for a higher purpose.
It wasn’t just about the beautiful object;
it was the beautiful object that stood in
for something else."
— Holland Cotter in The New York Times
Related material:
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