Richard Artschwanger, Table and Chair, 1965
Formica.
"ART IS VISUAL NOT VERBAL...
...The visual is a mode of knowing which is different from spoken and, especially, written language. Verbal analyses are not always possible and when they are, more often than not, destructive of the visual mode they propose to illuminate."
-Except from Richard Artschwanger's note books, from Richard Artschwanger, Up and Across. (c) 2001 Neues Museum, Nürnberg
I find it so interesting, the position that the verbal destroys the visual mode. This isn't so far from what Lacan would say about langauge, that it "freezes" or "kills" a concept becuase the concept is forced into stillness... and yet, words also open up new associative potentialities for the visual and the experiential... I'm not so sure that separating them is (for me) the best enterprise.
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