Art as Technique
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tare combination of old aia, combats, ed there
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re cei pti yt wuld brash argu ath pote quay comes
om te dey lint yey. dnd a the end of i vot, Wonder
eres Poe ad Trion as nays oot a feng hat many persons
or hl ft and; hima eres fer then a ing and or.
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areal od rately.
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fire sewues trae ad nenLrtne more frcnly and mre
gewraly than hed ber dine, end that wld at th ene tne sale te
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1 war appropiate hctrzly, rice, nf, singly red Patibzsion
‘prided [hts angen, rey sale, ta te habia of
‘hnking i tak he anf a early digest at pail, Noma
‘sr preptone ee "edema whch is amthr yo saying tha hy ae
nin, Frm hs sedi ering largely 0 mae of leaning to
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tee mis the pron but fil oe what he ok ie When reading
try re ly afk hl smn it rng if we ont
toting the idl rds ae tarde The ureter to
Silos, 16 fore w to nate. Site ean wal tn ealomate,
>t dlp osx of Tu te inde prep o, a at, al
asin tamil. Ths "Art a way of experiencing the ara
‘es of an objet the objet i at important"* The oti nine
ott be tat the oon dst ave punt enhng erie
"al the pon must “ht mean be
“This nthe place tbe the erie citing antic yeme,ba
sae sa note hal Sil pin mre uae en fed
‘woul at. To thet tha rk oft nt be espeienrd tthe exten
ha dite ey othr bjt tay “ean in these ey te
ject mew; ic ha, haar ne avntageit i desgal ptillyfor
‘ecplion, for rating and ling attain. ‘Ts nt ny Bort
Ieaning fcr earns oft mening wn the rad. Aoagh
‘ike didi low ths fine, de vod the ronge af i tty
ito inomsny. He prefers to argue, at dis. A. Richard, that
etion aed lf th th god Wiis he i of mam fly are
(f th worl vt parapoaeRihads ed to ramarice SM, he
ead of xd the earn for tat earns
Acading ts Sch, he chi eign for promoting sch pretion
steal cton” 1 imtoo mach dee a re bial by
fy mumbo of des, Ant pn of, ar SBsy poet an
tno a reader erie by making the famitir se sane Wordplay,
‘hb roughened rim, oF fg’ of rch call have te sane
‘foc No singe dee, an eee Py, Paty i ged mot
1 the pres of erin hind of met or ofa, embigein, smbaley
water, bat by ality 0 male man la with a erptonaly high
tof stares,
Act hin 1g.” This maim, which even high school
studs ptt, & never the satiny pat hr the erie
phiologst who is beginning to put together sme kind of tystematic
Iiterary they. The dea, orgnated in part by Potebny, hassprend
“Without imagery ee is no ary and Tn fariclar no poetry,”
Potebnya writes And ebewhere, “Poetry, aswell as pre, st
i foremost a seca way of thinking ad knowing
Poetry isa special way of thinking it iy preciely, & way of
Winking i images, = way which permite what is geneally called
szonomy of menial efor” away which mates for senstion of
the FATE ise othe peoese” Astetie felng i the reaction to
siti Yaya Sa hep es
1 Aller Pena Ie sd tl al (es oe Ty of
Len ha,. Rema Fou Cut
this economy, This is how the academician Ovsyaniko Kulikoveky
wh undoubiedly read the works of Ptebnya attentively, almont
Certainly understood and faithfully summarize the ideas of his
teacher. Poteboya and his numerous dilpes consider pociry a
special kindof thinking-=thinking by acho images: they fel
(hat the purpose of imagery ito help channel vari jer aad
Known, Or, at Potchnya wrote
(@) the nage fa are nd per han what ile
In other words:
Since the purpoe of imager st raniad u,b approximate, of
‘hang for which he eae san a ne, part or th,
ino meen fut et wh he
Tewould be instruetve tote to apply this pincp to Tyutchev's
comparion of sumer ighiniag to deaf and dumls demons oto
{Gaga's comparzon ofthe ky to the garment of God. is
Without imagery thee 8 no art" Art thinking in images.)
These maxims have led to frfetched lnterpetaion of inv ieuad
works of art. Attempts have been made to evaluite even musi,
chitectue, and pre poetry a magic thought Aer a quarter
ofa century of such attempsr OviyanikorKulikovsky finaly had to
asin Ire poewy,areitenare, and msi to petal category of
alts 9.3
3, a (19) ott ia ed 8
iain bc yy ry lly ht
‘erat Sintovay 7
‘imageles art and to define them as lyric arts appealing drety 0
the emotions And thus he admitted ax enormous rea of art wich
isnot a mode o thought Apart of this area, ye pocey (narrowly
‘omidete), quite ke the sual arts tale verbal. But, wc
‘more important, visual art pases quite percep ino ma
av: yet our perception of lth ae sia
inca (Let the a mae sr the enh a
the maki of syne, hus surdved the down af theca
hich supported it 1 sumives chil in the wake of Snot,
‘Specialy among the them ofthe Symbol overt,
Many sil baie, then hae thinking n imagen
spose scenes of “roads at landscape and “artows and evs
aries" ste chet eharacteriie fp. Consequently ey
should have expected the history of “lmao ata thy ell
4 to const oft history of changes in nngey. Bat we fin at
istage change itl; Fom century o century om nan ty,
from pet poe, hey How on whew hanging. mage elo
1p ane: they are “the Lars” The mare yeu underesnd an sae,
the more convinced you become thatthe imagers gen poet wed
sn which yu thought his wn were taken amo nchaoged fom
Swe: pot The works of pots re sed or grouped tesa
‘othe new techniques that pets iscover and share and according
toe arangement and cvlopmest a the esourcs of agua,
ets are much more concerned with arranging images thas th
{reaing them Images ae given to poe, the aii to femener
‘hem far mor importa ha the ay to eee cae,
Tragic tho est any ese, alte appects of
ann eve ll tear of veal ot hang in nagery
seni to the devloprent petty. We mew at ory
expres duh to be potty, to be erated for ace
Deane, along actealy wat rested witht sch intent
Annensy's opinion tht the Sls nguges are epecally poets
and Andrey Bely's ecstasy over the technique of pacing afecoes
‘Mex nouns a techie ted by eighentccentary Rusia por
‘tee Mana 116) wa aes