Argumentstellen / De Vries, Herman., 2003
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Scope and Contents
Internet: Argumentstellen was conceived just one year after Wit weiss (a new version of the White book) and Permutierbarer text (but was published in 2003). It is a direct result of his recent reading of Tractatus. This large format book wherein a minuscule black dot always appears in a different location on the vast blank space of the page, does not treat language as such, but the way in which situation in the space (which is an attribute of all existing things, natural or human) implies a unique point of view each time, a never identical relation to the connection between the things that make up the world. indirectly, however, language is involved to the extent that it is powerless to say that which is never the same. This book visually translates (and illustrates) one of Wittgenstein's propositions (2.0131), quoted on the last page: "a spatial object must be situated in infinite space. (a spatial point is an argument-place)." It foreshadows the series of works on the experience of change and the link between "chance and change" that Herman de Vries explicitly formulates for the first time in 1970 during his long trip to Bombay and the Seychelles, and during which he becomes fully aware of it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 2003
Creator
- de Vries, Herman, 1931- (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (48 pages)) ; 29.7 x 21.1 x .5 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
box shelf
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Rennes, France : Incertain Sens. Nationality of creator: Dutch. General: About 1250 total copies. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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