Apart from small distinctions for instance the web page quantity in the 1st photo therefore the Address “poorlydrawnlines.com” when you look at the 2nd, both of these comics look basically exactly the same, right? Incorrect. The 2nd comic has various proportions (dependent on my web browser settings – currently I’ve blown it as much as 24 ? 24 cm), its color tones will vary (based on my screen settings), light is mirrored differently off its area, it even glows by itself… to not point out the various feel and scent. Yet, people would state both are identical comic, “Stereotype” by Reza Farazmand.
Would Danto concur? Does he even think about two copies of a numerous to function as exact same masterpiece of design, two copies of a guide as an example? He does, e.g. On p. 33:
I’m able to, as an example, burn off a duplicate of this guide by which a poem is printed, however it is definately not clear that by doing this we have actually burned off the poem, though it exists elsewhere, say in another copy, the poem cannot merely be identical with that copy since it seems plain that though the page was destroyed, the poem was not; and. For the exact same explanation, it can’t be identified because of the pages simply burned. … Often sufficient poets and philosophers have actually looked at artworks as therefore just tenuously related to their embodiments.
Doesn’t this contradict the focus Danto sets on “the means the information is presented” (see above)? Or does not he count himself among the list of “poets and philosophers” who dismiss the form that is physical of artwork? On p. 93-94 it seems like he does:
Cohen has expected that Duchamp’s tasks are maybe maybe not the urinal after all however the gesture of exhibiting it; as well as the motion, if that certainly could be the work, does not have any surfaces that are gleaming speak of …. Continue reading „Compare this to your after screenshot:“