The Relevance of The Beautiful by Hans - Georg Gadamer

* "Why does the understanding of what art is today present a task for thinking" (p9)

* "What is this truth that is encountered in the beautiful and can come ro be shared? 

 What is the the purpose beyond aesthetics? Something intelligible?

Presented. The piece must have a purpose. To be used as something. A means to an end? It must be accessable, when it is "out there" it is understood becauseit is part of "universal human comprehension". What is the realtionship between - "what" i caonsider it to be - between what my ideaof what it is and how to go about it - and what it is to the other? Tension. Linear continuum. Part of time. It exists Singularly and Continuously. But different - though universal. A concept of Connection/Communication. A link of electrical conductivitythrough the medium of paint. Aesthetically put - an offer and (not). The problem is one of definition. A linguistic proposition which never hits the mark! An experience of Art, no matter how it is described is always affirmed, not only in the moment of interpretation, but in the moment of communication (Kant).

     * What is the machine? Can it ever be deconstructed? And if it was, would that deconstructionbe anything like the representation in the Artist's mind at the point of conception?  - of the idea/ideal in the actual production of the piece.

     - it is a good idea to Ailienate onesself from the piece. Henceforth the work will be refered to as "The Piece"