me: “Delacroix wrote in his journal that a successful picture temporarily ‘condensed’ an emotion that it was the duty of the beholder’s eye to bring to life and develop. This idea of transitivity introduces into the aesthetic arena that formal disorder which is inherent to dialogue. It denies the existence of any specific ‘place of art’ in favor of a forever unfinished discursiveness and a never-recaptured desire for dissemination.”
and then he goes on… (i’m only going to quote one more part)11:57 PM ”It was the closed conception of artistic practice, incidentally, against which Jean-Luc Godard rebelled when he explained that ‘it takes two to make an image.’ This proposition may well seem to borrow Duchamps, putting forward the notion that “it’s the beholder who makes pictures,” but it actually takes things a step further by postulating dialogue as the actual origin of the image-making process.”11:58 PM
