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Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I could simply recognize, leaning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or it will be not at all.
The following are notes from - Writing with Images https://writingwithimages.com/breton-nadja/
Photographs are crucial to the structure and historical reception of this book, but an argument can be made they are relatively neglected.
To pick up where I left off, and to add Breton to the subject matter the mistake being made here as is the case with most “Postmodern ” artist’s who attempt to equate a photograph or a visual item of art with narrative. All three are very very dissimilar. First lets get to the basics about the functionality of the human brain. As any neuroscientist will tell you, Jim, we don’t see with our eyes….we see with our brain. If Duchamp had known that fact he would have been less inclined to condemn the retinalism of art. The retina is merely a catalyst in the process of human visualization. So a photo, a two dimensional art work must be equated with the functionality of the visual cerebral cortex of our brain where vision originates from. Narrative has nothing to do with the visual experience. The fact that it has become an important characteristic of postmodern practices is ridiculous. Narrative in visual art is an anomaly. So that sets the stage of my response…however I have to stop here I have a class to instruct in 30 minutes so I am sorry I can’t complete w