FYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Barry Mazur, Bronze Sculpture, Contortion

• School: University of Hartford
• Department: First-Year Seminar
• Course: FYS 100
• Professor: Benardete Diego

Document Summary

Material: bronze sculpture in thought in a twisted position; contemplative, difficult, contorted pose. Some people don"t imagine a story when reading. No experience or feeling when forming an (immediate) image, other than those that are complicated. Rainer maria kilke: german poet in 1900s a. Wrote a letter to his translator, witold von hulewicz in 1920. Letter concludes to take in everything from the world and transform those experiences into art, music etc. These concepts or ideas are essentially invisible b. c. Imagination takes work, effort, distance, interacting with other species (kinds), being social, and entertainment. Its work but it has no contortion; its natural as human beings. 3: paragraph 4, paragraph 5, paragraph 6, paragraph 7. Imagination can be so quick - no process. Gives an image of tentative imagination: song: goat rodeo bluegrass. Theme of the book; development of imaginary numbers from the 1500s-1800s. Many people involved to develop; not just one mind that contributing to this creation.