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jaker · 02-01-2011, 10:53 AM

I started wondering about these concepts after watching this video: Turner Prize 2008 exhibition at Tate Britain, 30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009: Runa Islam
This artist seems to be saying that her artworks are for her real, concrete things and not existing as an idea in her mind.
Could you say that a poem is real?

That a stop sign is red is true. But what about a poem is true? Would a poet's authenticity and genuinely meaning what he/she is saying constitute for truth in a poem?

And fact - Emerson writes, "time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. No anchor, no cable, no fences, avail to keep a fact a fact."
This quotation, for me, is referring to the inevitability of things. I interpret Emersons's quotation to mean that artworks appear, nilly-willy, nevertheless, regardless of any fences we may build.
Could you say that the appearance of an artwork is a fact?

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jaker Crazy	I started wondering about these concepts after watching this video: Turner Prize 2008 exhibition at Tate Britain, 30 September 2008 - 18 January 2009: Runa Islam This artist seems to be saying that her artworks are for her real, concrete things and not existing as an idea in her mind. Could you say that a poem is real? That a stop sign is red is true. But what about a poem is true? Would a poet's authenticity and genuinely meaning what he/she is saying constitute for truth in a poem? And fact - Emerson writes, "time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. No anchor, no cable, no fences, avail to keep a fact a fact." This quotation, for me, is referring to the inevitability of things. I interpret Emersons's quotation to mean that artworks appear, nilly-willy, nevertheless, regardless of any fences we may build. Could you say that the appearance of an artwork is a fact?