Things That Talk Daston Lorraine
Things That Talk Daston Lorraine Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.Imagine a world without things. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would…
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Things That Talk Daston Lorraine
Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.Imagine a world without things. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about.
True to the particularity of things, each of the essays singles out one object for close attention: a Bosch drawing, the freestanding column, a Prussian island, soap bubbles, early photographs, glass flowers, Rorschach blots, newspaper clippings, paintings by Jackson Pollock. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. Each is revealed to be a node around which meanings accrete thickly.
But not just any meanings: what these