In the early romantic self-portrait with a dog, he painted himself, surrounded by the darkness of his cape and hat against a large boulder. And there his own face and hand are painted in exactly the same spirit as the stone behind. They were comparable visual phenomena, possessing the same visual reality. If visibility is lawless, there is no hierarchy of appearances. Courbet painted everything...
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
You relate the events which you have seen and are still seeing to the field. It is not only that the fielafrares them, it also contains them. The existence of the field is the precondition for their occurring in the way that they have done and for the way in which others are still occurring. All events exist as definable events by virtue of their relation to other events. You have defined the e...
Sometimes the vision of an individual imagination can outstrip the social forms of the existing culture—including the social form of art. When this happens the works produced by that imagination exist, not only in a personal but also in an historical solitude.
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality—and he was concerned with nothing else except the contemplation of reality—could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of his staring at it. The act ...
He had descended into what he thought was hell. Hell was established for him by the People he encountered there and heir uses of each other, but it was established no less by his awareness of his own intransigence and the power of his own hatred. He was himself permeated by the outrages and sins among which he found himself. But unlike Baudelaire, whom he admired, he could never place himself i...
Today, although Europe (east and west) and North America retain the technological means capable of transforming the world, they appear to have lost the political and spiritual initiative for bringing about any transformation. Thus today we can see the prophecies of the early European artistic avant-gardes in a different light. The continuity between us and them—such as we might have believed i...
His lack of alternatives, within his view of the human condition, is reflected in the lack of any thematic development in his lifes work. His progress, during 30 years, is a technical one of getting the worst into sharper focus. He succeeds, but at the same time the reiteration makes the worst less credible. That is his paradox. As you walk through room after room it becomes clear that you can ...
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