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- TO CLAIM THAT I UNDERSTAND A WORK OF ART
I
- ASSUME THAT I MUST FIRST COME TO AN ASSESSMENT
OF
- THE WORD "TO UNDERSTAND IN A SENSE DIFFERING
FROM
- THAT OF A FAILED EXPLANATION." COMPREHENDING
A WORK
- OF ART, THEREFOR, IS PART OF THE EXPLANATION
OF WHAT
- IS TO UNDERSTAND WORKS OF ART. COMPREHENSION
CONSISTS IN
- BEING ABEL TO PERCEIVE CONNECTIONS, AND THE
WORK OF ART
- FUNCTIONS MOST IMMEDIATELY IN MAKING' SENSE
WHEN THE
- MEANING OF ITS LINKAGES IS PERCEIVED. APPRECIATING
IT
- AESTHETICALLY, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS NOT
(QUITE) CONTEMPLATING
- IT AND PRONOUNCING IT "BEAUTIFUL"
OR NOT. APPRECIATION CAN
- - AND DOES - ASSUME AN INFINITE NUMBER OF
MODES ACROSS
- DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS OR CULTURES, MODES
WHICH WOULD NOT
- MAKE IT NECESSARY THAT ONE WOULD SAY - ABOUT
THE WORK-
- ANYTHING AT ALL. THE REFLEXIONS AND
THE GLOW ARE IN THE
- DEPTH OF THE PICTURE. (1)
- MORE IS CREATED THE MORE ONE SEEKS TO SEE
BELOW THE VARNISH,
- THE SEEKING ITSELF BEING REWARDED, IN TURN,
WITH EVER BRIGHTER
- GLOWING.(HENCE THE PRESSURE FOR GREATER TRANSPARENCY
- IN THE EIGHT?)RECEPTIVE OF SIGNS SIGNIFYING
THE MOVES BY WHICH
- THEY ARE ERASED,REFLECTING THAT WHICH JUST
WAS,
- AND POINTING TO THAT WHICH ANNIHILATES IT.
BESIDES TO GLOW
- IS TO BE OF THE ESSENCE.
- I.M.
- (1) L.WITTGENSTEIN, THE BROWN NOTEBOOK
ILIAS MARMARAS
"SANS TITRE" 1998
HUILE SUR TOILE
PHOT. KOSTAS DELLIGIANNIDES
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