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Perhaps Sontag's greatest insight concerns the relationship of a photograph to its own context. She comments, "as Wittgenstein argued for words, that the meaning is the use--so for each photograph." She focuses attention on this use, to the immediate use--whether in a gallery or a newspaper, whether captioned or not--and to the societal use, to the time, place, and culture depicted in the photograph. She explores the different perspectives on photography held by people in the Fifties and the Seventies, explores the different reactions to photography in China and the United States. And she concludes that...
Other artists took it from there. New York's Tom Wesselmann silk-screened the image of a nude onto plastic, then shaped it to capture its contours as well. Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi used eleven colors for Wittgenstein in New York, incorporated such city elements as jets, skyscrapers, and the man from a Bufferin ad to tick off hectic modern life. Roy Lichtenstein printed his Moonscape on metallic plastic that shimmers like aluminum foil. Claes Oldenburg made a serigraph print and attached a rust-colored felt...
Finally Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born Cambridge don, and such Oxonians as J. L. Austin and Gilbert Ryle decided independently that philosophy was concerned not so much with meaning as with use, and should seek to establish the rules of the various "language games" that men played with ordinary words, describing when a word was used legitimately, and when it was not. About all the various analytic schools had in common was the beliefs that philosophy has nothing to say about the world and that clarity and straight thinking will dissolve most of the classical metaphysical problems...
...shun all the authors he feels obliged to read. If his conscience impels him toward Marlowe, he should settle for Harlow; if his secret ambition is to get through all of Dumas, he should try a Du Maurier. For the habitual nonreader to leap into Finnegans Wake or Wittgenstein is almost as unseemly and possibly as dangerous as it is for a middle-aged stockbroker to demonstrate push-ups at a party. By the same token, the would-be title-dropper should stay firmly away from The Golden Bough, the Aeneid, Kierkegaard, The Wealth of Nations, Rousseau, Thucydides, The Origin...
...decade since The Netherlands' Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, attained nubility, Dutch reporters have trailed dozens of potential candidates for her hand. They traipsed along as usual when Beatrix flew off to ski at Gstaad in February. After all, a highly eligible bachelor, Rhenish Prince Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 30, was going to be there too. With him was a minor German diplomat, Claus von Amsberg, 38. "I do not understand," one puzzled newsman soon wired Amsterdam. "This Richard always skis alone, while Beatrix goes out and drinks in nightclubs with this fellow Claus Watsisname." Cabled his impatient editor...