The Worlds of Art and the World

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Joseph Margolis
Rodopi, 1984 - 203 sidor

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Sida 21 - The photographic image is the object itself, the object freed from the conditions of time and space that govern it. No matter how fuzzy, distorted, or discolored, no matter how lacking, in documentary value the image may be, it shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.
Sida 96 - When Jubal struck the chorded shell His listening brethren stood around, And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a God they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell That spoke so sweetly and so well.
Sida 22 - ... a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) - a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.
Sida 22 - Such [photographic] images are indeed able to usurp reality because first of all a photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image) an interpretation of the real: it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
Sida 22 - Certainly the image is not the reality but at least it is its perfect analogon and it is exactly this analogical perfection which, to common sense, defines the photograph.
Sida 114 - The whole tradition of art assumes art is creative in the strict sense, that it is a godlike activity in which the artist brings into being what did not exist beforehand — much as a demiurge forms a world out of inchoate matter.

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