Just underlining your idea of (re)construction that I find of particular
value.
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> <snip>
> I have been to the Prado and seen works such as Guernica and Las
> Meninas in actuality and its a great deal different to seeing
> reproductions of them. [DB]
> <snip>
>
> Quite so. Viewing in the flesh privileges the facticity and the craft of
> any
> given piece, reproduction its status as information. But neither is really
> *the work*, which (in order to engage with it) requires a richer
> (re)construction, whatever that entails; and it varies, of course, from
> case
> to case.
>
> CW
>
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