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Posted by: m759 Original: 3/11/2009 9:00 AM Views: 228 Comments: 0 eProps: 0 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Sein Feld
in Translation
(continued from
May 15, 1998)

The New York Times March 10--
"Paris | A Show About Nothing"--

'Voids, a Retrospective,' at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Photo from NY Times.

'Voids, a Retrospective,' at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Photo from NY Times.

The Times describes one of the empty rooms on exhibit as...

"... Yves Klein’s 'La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Le Vide' ('The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State Into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, the Void')"

This is a mistranslation. See "An Aesthetics of Matter" (pdf), by Kiyohiko Kitamura and Tomoyuki Kitamura, pp. 85-101 in International Yearbook of Aesthetics, Volume 6, 2002--

"The exhibition «La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière-première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée», better known as «Le Vide» (The Void) was held at the Gallery Iris Clert in Paris from April 28th till May 5th, 1955." --p. 94

"... «Sensibility in the state of prime matter»... filled the emptiness." --p. 95

Kitamura and Kitamura translate matière première correctly as "prime matter" (the prima materia of the scholastic philosophers) rather than "raw material." (The phrase in French can mean either.)

Related material:
The Diamond Archetype and
The Illuminati Diamond.

The link above to
prima materia
is to an 1876 review
by Cardinal Manning of
a work on philosophy
by T. P. Kirkman, whose
"schoolgirls problem" is
closely related to the
finite space of the
diamond theorem.

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