HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Omnipotence, Optical Fiber, Torpor
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There are several small paintings by chardin nearly all represent fruit and the accessories of a meal. Denis diderot, 1763: not aware of the medium. The oppositions of artist/audience, time/space, cause/effect, artist/medium, action/stasis, real/abstract are all sent into far more confused and clouded relations once immediacy enters and the producer or observer attempts to connect the opposing elements. Ariana weisel: the imagined absence of that window . There is always a medium of a certain kind interposing itself between you and what you think you are experiencing: problem that immediacy raises: nature of the real. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it. Ny times, october 20, 1862: people looked at these photographs and thought they were seeing something real, an instance of nature itself.
