Friends of interpretable objects /
Tamen, Miguel.
Friends of interpretable objects / Miguel Tamen. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. - 1 online resource (194 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-184) and index.
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SENSIBLE ECONOMICS -- 2 ICONOCLASM -- 3 PRESERVATION -- 4 PERSONS -- 5 RIGHTS -- 6 BODIES -- 7 HOSTILITY TO INTERPRETATION -- 8 DEFERENCE -- NOTES -- INDEX
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"Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, processes, meaning, and uses of interpretation. Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation - notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society. As his work unfolds, "friends" also takes on a legal sense, as advocates, introduced to advance the argument that the social life of interpreted and interpretable objects engenders a related web of social obligations."--Jacket.
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English.
9780674044210 (electronic bk.) 0674044215 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
10.4159/9780674044210 doi
22573/ctv1m3x2j0 JSTOR
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Anthropomorphism.
Interprétation (Philosophie)
Anthropomorphisme.
hermeneutics.
anthropomorphism.
PHILOSOPHY--Epistemology.
ART / Criticism & Theory
Anthropomorphism.
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
B824.17 / .T36 2001eb
121/.68
Friends of interpretable objects / Miguel Tamen. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. - 1 online resource (194 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-184) and index.
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SENSIBLE ECONOMICS -- 2 ICONOCLASM -- 3 PRESERVATION -- 4 PERSONS -- 5 RIGHTS -- 6 BODIES -- 7 HOSTILITY TO INTERPRETATION -- 8 DEFERENCE -- NOTES -- INDEX
Use copy
"Friends of Interpretable Objects re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it redefines the practice, processes, meaning, and uses of interpretation. Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation - notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society. As his work unfolds, "friends" also takes on a legal sense, as advocates, introduced to advance the argument that the social life of interpreted and interpretable objects engenders a related web of social obligations."--Jacket.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780674044210 (electronic bk.) 0674044215 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
10.4159/9780674044210 doi
22573/ctv1m3x2j0 JSTOR
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Anthropomorphism.
Interprétation (Philosophie)
Anthropomorphisme.
hermeneutics.
anthropomorphism.
PHILOSOPHY--Epistemology.
ART / Criticism & Theory
Anthropomorphism.
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
B824.17 / .T36 2001eb
121/.68