In-der-Blog-sein

Fides ex auditu has been looking at Van Gogh's shoes:

[R]eferenced in Heidegger's aesthetic treatise from the 1930s, 'On the Origin of a Work of Art', in which he described theses shoes as those of a peasant-woman. In the 1960s, Meyer Shapiro criticized Heidegger's reading of the work, challenging their ownership. He preferred the interpretation that they were a city-dweller's shoes, perhaps even Van Gogh's own shoes. He chalked Heidegger's reading up to the totalitarian tendencies toward romanticization of the pastoral life. But then Derrida came along in the 1980s (in 'The Truth in Painting [peinture]') and deconstructed them both.

We noted shoe related blogging last week.

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