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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
tentative projections
1. What does "a meaning which is ...." imply in the following context? Does it imply the hidden concepts of a work of art or the hidden concepts that lie inside of us?
2. does "tentative projections" mean "temporal and experimental images that we make in our brains"?
Context:
Art’s images bear resemblances to things we literally know and they offer to the mind an opportunity to engage in puzzling out a meaning which is partly literal, but gesturally symbolic, partly decodable and rationally explicable, partly fraught still with hidden implications and always physically ‘felt’ in our imaginations. We make tentative projections but when the forms present unusual information the pleasure inherent in the act of recognition is deferred. The deferral becomes a pleasure in itself, a foreplay which may never be fully consummated in the most effective works which delightfully tantalise us with hidden meanings.
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2. does "tentative projections" mean "temporal and experimental images that we make in our brains"?
Context:
Art’s images bear resemblances to things we literally know and they offer to the mind an opportunity to engage in puzzling out a meaning which is partly literal, but gesturally symbolic, partly decodable and rationally explicable, partly fraught still with hidden implications and always physically ‘felt’ in our imaginations. We make tentative projections but when the forms present unusual information the pleasure inherent in the act of recognition is deferred. The deferral becomes a pleasure in itself, a foreplay which may never be fully consummated in the most effective works which delightfully tantalise us with hidden meanings.
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Top answer
1. The former. 2.
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- The former.
- 2.
- It seems that "projections" is intended to mean something like "conjectures".
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1. The former.
2. It seems that "projections" is intended to mean something like "conjectures".
2. It seems that "projections" is intended to mean something like "conjectures".
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This part of the paragraph "and always physically ‘felt’ in our imaginations" is so weird to me. It does not seem relevant, when the whole paragraph is talking about the hidden concepts of artworks. How can we always feel the concepts behind works of art physically in our imaginations? What's your idea?
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It doesn't make much sense to me either. I don't see how anything can be "physically felt" in the imagination.
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