Blind Man Looking For A Black Cat In A Dark Room

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Blind man looking for a black cat in a dark room.

September 11 2009 january 3 2010 ica london. Celebrating the experience of not knowing and unlearning the artists in this exhibition understand the world in speculative terms eager to keep art separate from explanation. James mentioned the black cat expression in the first chapter of some problems in philosophy. A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there.

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there will travel to an additional american venue and a slightly modified version of the exhibition will simultaneously travel to three european venues. Philosopher theologian and lawyer. December 3 2009 january 31. A blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn t there and finding it.

With his obscure and uncertain speculations as to the intimate nature and causes of things the philosopher is likened to a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there. A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there. You re like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there. The show curated by anthony huberman took its title from a line attributed to charles darwin.

The cat s responses yearning and mournful seemed to me to echo the depth and doubt of morandi s work. A theologian is the man who finds it h l. Read reviews from world s largest community for readers. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there starts with the premise that art is not a code that needs cracking.

Contemporary art museum st. With science the cat is present with philosophy absent and with.