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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
meaning of memory
Do all "memory" words in the following context mean "what is remembered by people in their mind" than "a physical memorial"?
Context:
In the Eisenman project, as in Whiteread’s, the concern seems not so much to iconically represent “memory” as to emulate its process. But where Whiteread inserts her work into the processes of everyday experience, acting on and within a subject/viewer’s own memory work, Eisenman emulates those processes of remembering and forgetting in the generation of the architectural object itself, leaving traces of this generation as clues wherein the subject/viewer, attempting to reconstitute the process of generation, will by analogy, so to speak, exercise its memory. Whiteread, so to speak, turns to the memory of life, Eisenman to a figurative emulation of that memory in the parallel memory of the architectural object.
Anthony Vidler, Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture
Context:
In the Eisenman project, as in Whiteread’s, the concern seems not so much to iconically represent “memory” as to emulate its process. But where Whiteread inserts her work into the processes of everyday experience, acting on and within a subject/viewer’s own memory work, Eisenman emulates those processes of remembering and forgetting in the generation of the architectural object itself, leaving traces of this generation as clues wherein the subject/viewer, attempting to reconstitute the process of generation, will by analogy, so to speak, exercise its memory. Whiteread, so to speak, turns to the memory of life, Eisenman to a figurative emulation of that memory in the parallel memory of the architectural object.
Anthony Vidler, Warped Space: Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture
Top answer
The meaning shifts. ) refers to memory as a state of being, or "memory" in the abstract. The second "memory" (memory work) is a reference to the viewer's drawing upon their own private, individual memory.
- The meaning shifts.
- ) refers to memory as a state of being, or "memory" in the abstract.
- The second "memory" (memory work) is a reference to the viewer's drawing upon their own private, individual memory.
- The third "memory" (exercise its memory) suggests that the viewer is following a memory created by the architect .
- Thus we come to the contrast in the last sentence.
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The meaning shifts. Here is what they appear to me to mean:
The first "memory" (memory as to emulate...) refers to memory as a state of being, or "memory" in the abstract.
The second "memory" (memory work) is a reference to the viewer's drawing upon their own private, individual memory.
The third "memory" (exercise its memory) suggests that the viewer is following a memory creat
The first "memory" (memory as to emulate...) refers to memory as a state of being, or "memory" in the abstract.
The second "memory" (memory work) is a reference to the viewer's drawing upon their own private, individual memory.
The third "memory" (exercise its memory) suggests that the viewer is following a memory creat
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