The Speechless Image

By |2023-08-14T14:39:03-05:00August 14th, 2023|Categories: Art, Culture, Modernity, Philosophy, Timeless Essays, Worldview|

What can be said of the way that the abstract work speaks to us—despite the fact that its “content” is untranslatable into words and concepts—is that in its very inability to speak, the work expresses the sense of alienation from a once-familiar and shared artistic life-world. Is the avant-garde then a tragedy or a happy [...]