|
|
Martin Heidegger, Meyer Schapiro, van Goghs's shoes and some problems of interpretation
Zachariáš, Jan ; Konečný, Lubomír (advisor) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee)
In Heidegger's text Origin of the work of Art is one part, where Heidegger writes about van Gogh's painting Pair of shoes. A lot of art writers and philosophers who consedered Heidegger's essay managed, that Heidegger interpreted this painting as shoes of peasant woman. In my opinion Heidegger only freely speaks about van Gogh's painting. In Heidegger's own words it is questioning of philosopher not strict interpretation. Everything what Heidegger says about van Gogh's painting is deeply conected with whole philosopher's concept of human being, which he itroduced in his masterpiece Being and Time. Van Gogh painted number of shoes, we can find sabots in his early period and lether working or walking shoes from Paris period. Depicting of sabots is conected with van Gogh's liking for counry-life and life of poor peasants in his Holland period. On the other hand in his Paris period one can find four paintings of city wolker's shoes. These paintings are conected with van Gogh's social statut as fleneur - city walker. One of these paintings is the same that Heidegger mentioned in his essay. It is surely "Pair of Shoes" (cat. num. Faille F 255). A lot of scholars, including Jameson, Owens, Derrida have considered this painting. The most probably interpretation seems to be that van Gogh wanted to express...
|
guest ::
