Gosh are we saying that we cannot appreciate the sunrise without knowing all
about the galaxies and that stuff
P puzzled
Got an image of vultures tearing up a body of an animal to see it's beauty
P philistinefully
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Sent: 14 May 2008 18:42
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Subject: Re: Rauschenberg, Duchamp or What You Will
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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]
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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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