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By Misha Gordin

Bound figures huddle in surprisingly orderly rows. sopping wet, robed acolytes sweep a staircase. A chained, bare guy faces an never-ending horizon. Oddly serene, a head bursts into flames. Misha Gordin has referred to as the method of images ''similar to writing poetry,'' and certainly, this beautiful assortment establishes Gordin as a poet of the picture who makes use of old-school, wonderful paintings thoughts to exquisitely render darkish and compelling replacement worlds and mysterious allegories. via his means of “conceptual photography,” Gordin addresses essentially the most primal questions in paintings and existence: start, dying, and the character of being. A rarity within the box, he makes his visible magic — such as college and repetition results — with out machine expertise of any style, utilizing merely conventional darkroom ideas that remember the earliest days of images. this gorgeous present version celebrates the literal high quality artwork of 1 of the main leading edge photographers operating today.

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The end of art, and its truth, is religion, that other circle of which the end, the truth, will have been philosophy, and so on. And you know-we shall have to get the most out of this later on-the function of the ternary rhythm in this circulation. The fact remains that here art is studied from the point of view of its end. Its pastness is its truth. The philosophy of art is thus a circle in a circle of circles : a "ring" says Hegel, in the totality of philosophy. It turns upon itself and in annulling itself it links onto other rings.

We are, right from the introduction, encircled. Na doubt art figures one of those productions of mind thanks to which the latter returns to itself, comes back to consciousness and cognizance and comes to its proper place by returning to it, in a circle. What is called [s 'appelle: lit. " The mind is what it is, says what it means, only by returning. Retracing its steps, in a circle. But art forms only one of the circles in the great circle of the Geist or the revenant ( this visitor can be called Gast, or ghost, guest or GespenstJ.

The very thing that makes-the believers-believe in its mediacy can also give up to neither of the two terms, nor even to the structure of opposition, nor perhaps to dialectic insofar as it needs a mediation. Index of a discrepancy: in relation to all the machinery of the pose (position/opposition, SetzungIEntgegensetzung). By giving it the philosophical name art, one has, it would seem, domesticated it in onto-encyclopedic economy and the history of truth and the place which The Origin of the Work of Art accords to the Lectures on Aesthetics ( lithe PARERGON 35 West's most comprehensive meditation on the essence of art") can only be determined, in a certain historical topography, on the basis of the Critique of the Faculty of Judgment.

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