Art and deserts
At issue: No more likenesses of reality, no idealistic images, nothing but a desert! What might it say about art to equate art with the desert?
A geographical region is defined as a part of the world that is distinctive from other areas and which extends as far as that distinction extends. [1]
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[...] the concepts of the conscious mind are worthless.
Feeling is the determining lender … and thus art arrives at non-objective representation—at Suprematism.
It reaches a “desert” in which nothing can be perceived but susceptibilities.
… I took refuge in the square form [...], the critics and, along with them, the public sighed, “Everything which we loved is obsolete. We are in a desert [...]” [3]
I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert. [4]
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[On the first day's ride through the desert, just Lawrence – the blond, gloomy-eyed Peter O'Toole – in scruffy uniform and cap, and Tafas el Raashid, a Bedouin guide, all beard and robes, on camelback. They be over. Low angle two-shot.]
Tafas: Here you may drink.
[Lawrence unfastens his water bottle.]
Tafas: One cup.
[Lawrence pours a cup. Tafas watches him.]
Lawrence: You do not glass?
Tafas: No.
Lawrence: I’ll drink when you do.
Tafas: I am Bedou.
[Lawrence pours his water back into the bottle.]
[Later, encamped under the stars, a fire between them. Lawrence reclining, Tafas inquiring.]
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