Tuesday, June 2, 2015

17 syllables -- and other art

What is he talking about?  What does he mean?
The thought-provoking riddle posed by these 17 syllables (presented here as 3 square stanzas) from Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)  is something I found on the the wall of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, not far from a replica of "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968).  Photos of both are shown below.

What you are
regarding
as a gift 

is a 
problem 

for you 
to solve.



Duchamp also experimented with representations of the 4th dimension.  Consider, for example, his "Nude Descending a Staircase."

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