Re: <documenta X><blast> Visual
davidkremers (kremersd@ix.netcom.com)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:51:11 -0700
> us.' This landscape is prior to our seeing; it is the field upon which
> seeing occurs. Rather than looking, we are looked at. And so seeing,
> and volition, is reversed, redirected. But then what does it mean that
> the gaze belongs to 'things'? How is it routed through a thing that
> looks at me? The gaze we encounter is not 'seen,' but only
> interpolated, and so is this act of situating the gaze in 'things' our
> own? And how does the viewer 'lay down the gaze'?
...you may want to read the essay at the end of the catalog 'gerhard
richter, 100 paintings'...
dk