There is no tabula rasa. We are like sailors who must rebuild their ship on the open sea, never able to dismantle it in dry-dock and to reconstruct it there out of the best materials. Where a beam is taken away, a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. Otto NeurathFEATURING HIS SELF MADE SAILOR’S HAT until his last days, Lawrence Weiner never tired of reminding us that WE ARE SHIPS AT SEA NOT DUCKS ON A POND, apparently sharing Otto Neurath’s moral imperative. The necessity of citing Weiner verbatim in the very first sentence (and in nearly every
Beautiful terror: Why witnessing the sublime in art gives you that awestruck feeling
Artists have tried for centuries to capture the sensation you feel in the face of something immeasurable.
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Artists have tried for centuries to capture the sensation you feel in the face of something immeasurable
Posted: Feb 18, 2021 5:30 PM ET | Last Updated: February 18
Beautiful terror: Why witnessing the sublime in art gives you that awestruck feeling
CBC Arts2 months ago
4:23Artists have tried for centuries to capture the sensation you feel in the face of something immeasurable.4:23
Have you ever gone to the gallery with your uncle and as you re watching him stare deep into a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a look of slight terror appears on his face as he gazes at the rough sea? That look on your uncle s face is part of art! Today we re going to talk about this effect that philosophers have called the sublime the sensation that you feel when you look at something i