A strikingly original work, "Friends of Interpretable Objects"
re-anchors aesthetics in the object of attention even as it
redefines the practice, processes, meaning, and uses of
interpretation.
Miguel Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on
life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as
they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an
object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of
friends." Thus, Tamen suggests, our inveterate tendency as human
beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a
life but also a society. As his work unfolds, "friends" also takes
on a legal sense, as advocates, introduced to advance the argument
that the social life of interpreted and interpretable objects
engenders a related web of social obligations.
Focusing on those who, through interpretation, make objects
"speak" in settings as different as churches, museums, forests, and
distant galaxies--those who know the best interests of
corporations, endangered species, and works of art--Tamen exposes
the common ground shared by art criticism, political science, tort
law, and science. Learned and witty, with much to teach art
historians, environmentalists, anthropologists, curators, and
literary critics, his book utterly reorients our understanding of
how we make sense of our world.
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