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Barnett Newman, Michael Schreyach
Barnett Newman's “Sense Of Space”: A Noncontextualist Account Of Its Perception And Meaning, Michael Schreyach
Barnett Newman's “Sense Of Space”: A Noncontextualist Account Of Its Perception And Meaning, Michael Schreyach
Michael Schreyach
Barnett Newman professed that a beholder's encounter with his paintings was like meeting another person for the first time. He believed the experience produced the conditions for apprehending an ethical relationship that would entail both the individual's achievement of his or her own understanding of “self” and his or her acknowledgment of another individual. But it would be their mutual recognition of separateness as the condition of possibility for communication — for sharing worlds — that would ground the ethical relationship between them. Not just interested in matters of theory, the artist was also specific about the modes of spatial …