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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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body vs figure
1. The following description is about Gormley's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EventHorizon(sculpture). What is the difference between "figure" and "body" here?
2. Does "enabling the observable city to be fore-grounded" mean "calling attention to the observable city"?
As figures they ‘produce’ space, enabling the observable city to be fore-grounded, but as bodies they disappear – like traceurs – luring you into their ‘black holes’, as if they were asking you what it is that you want from the city.
2. Does "enabling the observable city to be fore-grounded" mean "calling attention to the observable city"?
As figures they ‘produce’ space, enabling the observable city to be fore-grounded, but as bodies they disappear – like traceurs – luring you into their ‘black holes’, as if they were asking you what it is that you want from the city.
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1. It may be that "figures" refers to the sculptural aspect and "bodies" to the human aspect. 2.
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- It may be that "figures" refers to the sculptural aspect and "bodies" to the human aspect.
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- It seems to mean "put into the foreground", but it is not clear to me whether this implies "calling attention to", or is just describing a compositional aspect of the scene.
- In my opinion it is all a lot of pretentious nonsense.
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1. It may be that "figures" refers to the sculptural aspect and "bodies" to the human aspect.
2. It seems to mean "put into the foreground", but it is not clear to me whether this implies "calling attention to", or is just describing a compositional aspect of the scene.
In my opinion it is all a lot of pretentious nonsense.
2. It seems to mean "put into the foreground", but it is not clear to me whether this implies "calling attention to", or is just describing a compositional aspect of the scene.
In my opinion it is all a lot of pretentious nonsense.
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