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Staircase and Passage Staircase and Passage
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Painting of Precision, Beauty of Indifference and Infrathin Painting of Precision, Beauty of Indifference and Infrathin
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What if Creation Precedes Theory? What if Creation Precedes Theory?
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Diagonal Science and Philosophy of Art Diagonal Science and Philosophy of Art
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Notes Notes
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13 Impossible! Bergson after Duchamp after Caillois
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Published:October 2017
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Abstract
Beyond traditional art historical practice and its haptophobia with experimental, subjectivist, or speculative methods, what we have already begun to learn from Marcel Duchamp can be further established with the philosophies Henri Bergson and Roger Caillois. An up-to-date philosophy of art might thus be one that combines the potentialities of intuition and a bold imagination with the need for precision and strict controls. In the light of that ‘logic of the imaginary’ which Caillois brought onto the scene with his ‘diagonal sciences’, art and its attendant histories and theories are no longer about substantive messages, but rather about questioning their contingent effects and affects upon a particular environment or beholder. Seen from this angle, philosophy of art might have to deal with unstoppable transformations of dominant structures of knowledge, outpacing self-referential interpretations in favour of a protean field of reciprocal actions and attractions, which can be cultivated by anyone willing to join the game.
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