https://391.b00.mywebsitetransfer.com/discussion-david-backer/ Fri, 08 Jul 2022 01:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://391.b00.mywebsitetransfer.com/discussion-david-backer/#comment-3148 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:42:09 +0000 http://artequalstext.aboutdrawing.org/?p=3892#comment-3148 Maybe I’ll start off to get the ball rolling on this discussion. I like thinking about the picture theory of meaning in this artistic context, particularly related to Bochner’s work, because on this theory pictures are constitutive of our understandings of language. But when a picture is made using text I get the sense that something is backwards. An image should be the way I understand language–but if language is the image, then what am I supposed to think? (This reminds me of a dumb undergraduate essay I wrote about the phrase “‘the word ‘letter'”, and how the word refers to its own constituents as though the word were a picture of itself, or its meaning was itself.) Is this something that Bochner (and the exhibit as a whole) intends in these works?

]]> https://391.b00.mywebsitetransfer.com/discussion-david-backer/#comment-3147 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:40:18 +0000 http://artequalstext.aboutdrawing.org/?p=3892#comment-3147 […] moderating an online discussion this week at artequalstext.com. Here’s the […]

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