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<\/a>Ethan’s shoes<\/p><\/div>\n
Reminded me instantly of Van Gogh’s shoes:<\/p>\n
<\/a>A Pair of Shoes (1885), by Vincent van Gogh.<\/p><\/div>\n
And, the articles that every art history major has to read: Martin Heidegger’s The origin of the work of art<\/a>, Meyer Schapiro’s Still life as personal object<\/em>, and Jacques Derrida’s Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing<\/a>. Here’s a pretty nifty blog post<\/a> with a paragraph from each critic, and an article<\/a> written around the time of Schapiro’s death that sums up the debate. Where was this when I was in school? ….. I think I only had to suffer through the Heidegger and Derrida in my art history theory class in 1993. The class where, on the first day, the extremely hip woman dressed all in black said, “When someone says quality, I just have to step back<\/em>.” [emphasis hers] I should go check the packet of photocopied articles that we had to buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethan’s boots in the back hallway this morning: Reminded me instantly of Van Gogh’s shoes: And, the articles that every art history major has to read: Martin Heidegger’s The origin of the work of art, Meyer Schapiro’s Still life as personal object, and Jacques Derrida’s Restitutions of the Truth in Pointing. Here’s a pretty nifty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[339,340],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art-history","tag-shoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9799,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions\/9799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}