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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

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November 24, 2005

I'm struggling to understand Blanchot's poetics on this theme. So I turned to this

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Otto Dix, The Skull, 1924

This is a gruesome image of decay and worms investing a human skull. It is meant to symbolize the indescribable horrors of the first World War. For Dix and other European artists of the WWI era, skulls were powerful tools to express the dark reality of death that the disaster of war inevitably brings.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 5:33 PM | | Comments (0)
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