La filosofiacute;a de George Santayana representa una de las elaboraciones maacute;s significativas y profundas del pensamiento americano de principios del siglo xx. Su fama de pensador intempestivo; habituado a moverse a contracorriente; hace maacute;s oportuna que nunca una relectura esteacute;tica de su obra; que contiene aquellos problemas que incitan la reflexioacute;n filosoacute;fica: queacute; es la vida; cuaacute;l es el misterio de la belleza; de doacute;nde nace y queacute; es el arte. Su reflexioacute;n sobre el hecho esteacute;tico recibe la impronta de una mediterraacute;nea laquo;racionalidadraquo; basada en la experiencia y la realidad de la vida; del "sensus communis". El libro propone una mirada nueva hacia aquel antiguo sentir mediterraacute;neo; que nos permite descubrir una experiencia maacute;s amplia del sentir y una visioacute;n maacute;s articulada de la razoacute;n y de la vida.
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Review
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Long-winded. repetitiveBy smDoris Salcedo is a very interesting Colombian artist and really deserves an intelligent monograph on her work and how it bears witness to political violence. Unfortunately. this is not it. The book by Mieke Bal is not without insight. the chapter headings suggest some very interesting issues about the artists work: Acts of memory. metaphor. anthropomorphism. The style of writing. however. is incredibly long-winded and often very repetitive. Bal seems to circle round the work. making much of approaches and ideas she is not going to follow or analyse. but there is little by way of solid explication of her method. When she does engage directly with Salcedos art the analysis is laboured but ultimately fairly pedestrian.Much of the book is trying to explain Salcedos approach to political art. but this issue remains vague and ill-defined. At one point in the book (p. 179). Bal finally indicates that the closest she will get to articulating why the work is political is that it allows one to respond in whatever way one feels is appropriate. This is hardly ground-breaking stuff. The Phaidon book on the artist and the catalogue Unland offer better scholarly interpretations of the artists work.1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Haunting review of difficult workBy Carolin K. ShiningThe authors review. begun at the J. Paul Getty research center. is a mysterious and elegiac work. As an author. Bal does not discuss the-Columbian born Doris Salcedos entire body of work. but instead dissects particular pieces and the themes they bring into a discussion of emptiness. death and mourning.In the section on "Untitled Furniture (Armoire)". the use of concrete filling a glass armoire raises many rhetorical questions on death. existence who exactly is buried in the spaces created inside and outside of the concrete. Mixing personal experiences with the artists work and incorporating an understanding of the artists own traumatic past. this book is a jumping-off point into the study of modern art. loss and grief. While not an encyclopedia. there is plenty of grist to chew on. and I recommend this book for anyone seeking to further their study of the "why" and "what" of the politics of memory.
