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Silesius22
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[2010-07-14 14:51:18 +0000 UTC]
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(France)
# Statistics
Favourites: 451; Deviations: 493; Watchers: 15
Watching: 60; Pageviews: 9537; Comments Made: 80; Friends: 60
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Bellmer, Munch, Caravaggio, Spilliaert, Giacometti, Redon, Goya, Ensor, Greco, Wols, VelasquezFavorite movies: Vampyr and many more... http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Silesius/top_150_films
Favorite bands / musical artists: Schoenberg, Bach, Braxton, Fahey, Beefheart... http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Silesius/top_150_albums
Favorite writers: Beckett, Jarry, Adorno, Blanchot, Joyce... http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Silesius/favorite_books
# About me
My blog: analecte.wordpress.com/"Art works like fairies in tales: if you want the absolute, you shall have it, but only in disguise. By contrast, the truth of discursive knowledge, while undisguised, is unattainable. Works of art are less subjective than discursive knowledge precisely because they offer the subject greater freedom. Kant was absolutely right in subordinating them to a concept of teleology which was higher than understanding. According to Kant's theory, human beings are cut off from the in-itself by a kind of block. Now it is this block which in works of art shapes the in-itself into enigmatic figures. It is especially when they are blocked that art works represent images of being-in-itself. Ultimately art's enigma may even be the repository for the enigmatic quality of real life, to the blandly unmysterious essence of which art seems so radically opposed. Maybe art is enigmatic because it takes on phenomenal appearence, pretending it has solved the riddle of real life which in its native realm has been consigned to ossification and oblivion. To the degree to which man has spun a conceptual network around everything outside his subjective spirit, he has lost the sense of wonder in the presence of the other. Weak as it may be, art seems to correct this tendency. By its very nature it still instils wonder into human beings, just as philosophy was supposed to instill wonder, according to Plato, never mind the fact that it decided otherwise."
Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory
"Un visage d'homme, c'est un hiéroglyphe, un signe sûr, sacré. Une présence de l'âme y séjourne, pareillement chez l'animal - regarde un buffle en face, quand il mâche ou, de colère, roule un oeil injecté de sang, et puis regarde un aigle en face, un bon chien. Dans un visage humain il y a un vouloir et un devoir, qui sont davantage que le vouloir et le devoir d'un individu. [...] Et depuis quatre mois je regarde les visage des êtres réels: non qu'ils soient dépourvus d'âme, mais cela s'évanouit aussitôt, mais c'est une éternelle apparition et disparition, comme dans un colombier, de force et de faiblesse, de spontanéité et de causes lointaines, de vulgaire et de sublime, tant de virtualités en effervescence; ce qui leur fait défaut, c'est une grande, une unique arrière-pensée, à jamais inexprimable, celle qui, constante, habite les bons visages, renvoie à la mort et au-delà de la mort, comme un guide, à travers la confusion de la vie, et sans laquelle un visage pour moi n'est pas un hiéroglyphe, ou en est un, mutilé, effacé, flétri."
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Lettres du voyageur à son retour
Favourite genre of music: Avant-garde jazz, modern classical, singers-songwriters, art pop, experimental rock
Favourite photographer: Atget, Kertesz, Ray, Leiter, Moriyama, Ubac, Sommer, Frank...
# Comments
Comments: 49
Très belle galerie... Un vrai style personnel !
De la part du collègue de la bpi
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Hi, I see you had me "watched" on my older Deviant account (Juarezandanocamina).
I just wanna advice you my recent change to this new account
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So glad to see that someone else appreciates Dreyer's classic Vampyr. I'm going to look at the rest of your work now.
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Merci, Boris.
Saludos desde México.
Thanks a lot for fave and add!
Excellent your gallery!
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Thank you kindly for the faves, and for the watch, too.
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Thanks for the fav - would you mind voting for the piece on Saatchi Showdown .. [link]
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De rien maître luchier! Je viens de visiter votre site perso, et j'ai particulièrement aimé la série Diana. Rien de tel qu'une photo contrastée en surimpression pour mettre mes pupilles en émoi.
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On a un peu les mêmes contrastes faut dire !
Le charme de l'argentique !
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It seems you're French... but I don't know much French...
Merci pour le fav!
Sorry if that was poorly translated.
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