Friends of Interpretable Objects

Download or read book Friends of Interpretable Objects written by Miguel Tamen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamen shows how inanimate objects take on life through interpretation—notably as they are collected and housed in museums. He claims that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a “society of friends.” Thus, he suggests, our tendency as humans to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects both a life and a society.