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Book Description: Villa Croce. Centro per le arti visive. Museo D'Arte Contmporanea Di Genova. 15. febbraio - 16. giugno 2002. Genova: neos edizioni, 2002. 186 Seiten, mit sehr zahlreichen, teils farb. Abbildungen, 4°, kartoniert. Illustrierter Originalkartonband in sehr gutem, ungenutztem Zustand. Namenszug auf Vorsatz, geschwärzt. Texte in italienischer und englischer Sprache. - I have nothing to say, and I'm saying it to you", said John Cage. Perhaps the most astounding thing about this statement was that it was even uttered (out loud and in public, 1 believe), which simply means that it was important for Cage to make it known that he had nothing to say. Why should one make it known that one has nothing to say? If someone has nothing to say, he/she should, in theory, be silent. The last Proposition in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is very well-known and frequently quoted by those who have not read the rest of the work: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereon one must be silent". But immediately afterwards he poses the problem: "How can it happen that someone has nothing to say about something?" But Wittgenstein goes further, declaring that if one cannot "speak" of something one must be silent. Does this mean it is a matter of "speaking" and not of "writing"? This might seem a rather specious question and it Gould lead us into some insignificant or — even worse — misleading "logical" rather than "philosophical" area, so it would be wiser to set it aside and pretend it hadn't been raised. It might be more interesting to concentrate on Propositions 6.731, 6.732 and 6.41 instead. It is well known that the Code number of each Proposition is so muck longer as the Proposition is less "atomic" — i.e., less remote from original primitiveness. Having observed that man has always laboured under the dominant Illusion that so-called "natural laws" provide an "explanation" for natural phenomena, he deduces that there cannot always exist a correspondence, a "mirror Image", between "atomic" facts and the affirmations of philosophy — i.e., knowledge and representation of the world. The statement Ihe meaning of the world must lie outside it" concludes the Proposition but it also contains the necessary statement that one cannot speak of that which cannot be known. Very mang scholars have observed the assonance with Gödel's thinking, particularly the "theorem" implying that in every formalised language, in every "general machine", there must exist at least one proposition that cannot prove itself. Obviously, such considerations appear far removed from everyday life and normal conversation. We have the habit of adopting and using a language, a system of communication that confirms — perhaps weakly but with encouraging and consoling consistency — that something can 'always' be said about something else. At most, when in difficulty, we accuse ourselves of "not finding the words" or "not knowing how to put it" or, more eloquently, "all'alta fantasia qui mancö possa.". The solution of blaming things on our stock of words when we encounter difficulty in speaking is like pouring a barrel of oil on stormy waters. It allows us to stay afloat for the time being and saue our lives but, immediately afterwards, the storm will come again and this time be more terrifying than before. Returning to Cage, perhaps others had also fett this curious, slightly embarrassing, slightly tedious, slightly amusing inability to say something about. something else. The space in which Cage expressed himself was not three-dimensional but the space of music or, rather, sound. The ancient question of the "ineffability" of music and its dangerous relationship to Inner representation", complicated by the supreme crisis of the syntactic systems of expression and writing, directed Cage towards the sound of "silence", . (Introduction) Moderne Kunst. Bildende Kunst. Malerei. Kunstgeschichte. Kunstwissenschaft. Installation. Fotografie. Medien. Fluxus. Bookseller Inventory # 4076

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Book Description: Neos edizioni, 2002. No Binding. Book Condition: As New. Book condition: as new, immaculate inside and out with no marks or tears, text in Italian and English, 8.25 X 11 inches. Bookseller Inventory # 001117

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