Friends of interpretable objects
Auteur :
Tamen, Miguel
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674013681
Date de publication :
1 mars 2004
Dimensions :
19,2 x 10,6 cm
Poids :
200 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Tamen shows how inanimate objects take on life through interpretation—notably as they are collected and housed in museums. He claims that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a “society of friends.†Thus, he suggests, our tendency as humans to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects both a life and a society.