The Kinetic Icon in the Work of Mourning

Prolegomena to the Analysis of a Textual System

Bibliographic Data

ID4300738
AuthorsAnnette Michelson (corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume52
Pages16
Publication date1990-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOctober (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/778882
OpenAlexW2321397026
LanguageEN
Citations received22

An art historian can approach the subject of these lectures only with the greatest trepidation. Trespassing upon the preserve of many adjacent disciplines (classical and oriental archeology, Egyptology, the history of religion and superstition, philosophy and several others), he has to rely largely on secondary sources and often finds himself confronted with a diversity of opinions, at times about crucial points which he, as a rank outsider, cannot presume to evaluate. . . . To make things worse there is hardly any sphere of human experience where rationally incompatible beliefs so easily coexist and where prelogical, one might also say metalogical, feelings so stubbornly survive in periods of advanced civilization as in our attitude towards the dead

Epistemology · Icon · Programming language · Work (physics · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Computer Science · Engineering · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Mechanical Engineering

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