Friends of Interpretable Objects / Miguel Tamen.

Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests,...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author:	Tamen, Miguel (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphisme. Interpretation (Philosophy) Interprétation (Philosophie)