'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'
'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'
This is T J Clark's keynote address, Do Landscapes have Identities?, at the Melbourne Festival of Ideas 2011 Clarke is well known for arguing in his books that modern paintings striving to articulate the social and political conditions of modern life.
The identity or the familiarity the landscape also implies non-identity or strangeness. The banality, ordinariness and the nondescript becomes strange. It eludes the categories we use to make sense of, and to understand, the material world.
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