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:"With color there is no 'thing-in-itself'. Color asks to be thought about, not as an object to be observed or as a text to be read, but as a transation to be experienced. That transaction happens within three coordinates -- space ,time, and body -- which are, in fact, the fundamental coordinates of all human experience." (16) | :"With color there is no 'thing-in-itself'. Color asks to be thought about, not as an object to be observed or as a text to be read, but as a transation to be experienced. That transaction happens within three coordinates -- space ,time, and body -- which are, in fact, the fundamental coordinates of all human experience." (16) | ||
green curtains covering portraits; protecting them from light, dust | |||
Green Closet at Ham House; framing of room by doors and portraits by frames; hanging locks of hair and curtain pulled back creates multisensory experience (20) | |||
* English equivalent of Italian ''studiolo'' |
Revision as of 18:36, 28 November 2010
Light at 500-510 Nanometers and the 17th-Century Crisis of Consciousness
Marvell, "The Garden"
Derrida, The Truth in Painting; color as a power, force, transgressive, refusing the strictures of the line
- "Color is not an object out there in space, waiting to be named; it is a phenomenon, an event that happens between an object and a subject." (15)
- "With color there is no 'thing-in-itself'. Color asks to be thought about, not as an object to be observed or as a text to be read, but as a transation to be experienced. That transaction happens within three coordinates -- space ,time, and body -- which are, in fact, the fundamental coordinates of all human experience." (16)
green curtains covering portraits; protecting them from light, dust
Green Closet at Ham House; framing of room by doors and portraits by frames; hanging locks of hair and curtain pulled back creates multisensory experience (20)
- English equivalent of Italian studiolo