Wednesday, February 2, 2011

writing about art's presence



I love Heidegger's analysis of Van Gogh's peasant shoes:
"On the leather lie the dampness and richness of the soil. Under the soles stretches the loneliness of the field-path as evening falls. In the shoes vibrates the silent call of the earth, its quiet gift of the ripening grain and its unexplained self-refusal in the fallow desolation of the wintry field."

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