Telemaco Signorini, Bambina che scrive
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
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«Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element; its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. this unique existence of the work of art determined the history to which it was subject throughout the time of its existence. This includes the changes wich it may have suffered in physical condition over the years as well as the various changes in its ownership.»
«The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity. (...) Confronted with its manual reproduction, which was usually branded as a forgery, the original preserved all its authority; not so vis a vis technical reproduction. The reason is twofold. First, process reproduction is more independent of the original than manual reproduction. For example, in photography, process reproduction can bring out those aspects of the original that are unattainable to the naked eye yet accessible to the lens (...). Secondly, technical reproduction can put the copy of the original into situations which would be out of reach for the original itself. (...) The cathedral leaves its locale to be received in the studio of a lover of art; the coral production, performed in an auditorium or in the open air, resounds in the drawing room.»
«The situations into which the product of mechanical reproduction can be brought may not touch the actual work of art, yet the quality of its presence is always depriciated. (...) what is really jeopardized when the historical testimony is affected is the authority of the object.»
«The concept of aura which was proposed above with reference to historical objects may usefully be illustrated with reference to the aura of natural ones. (...) Unmistakably, reproduction as offered by picture magazines as newsreels differs from the image seen by the unarmed eye. Uniqueness and permanence are as closely linked in the latter as are transitoriness and reproducibility in the former. To pry an object from its shell, to destroy its aura is the mark of a perception whose "sense of the universal equality of things" has increased to such a degree that it extracts it even from a unique object by means of reproduction. (...)»
«The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremly changeable. (...) It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty. (...) With the advent of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. At the time, art reacted with the doctrine of art pour l'art, that is, with a theology of art. (...)
«(...) mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. (...) But the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be apllicabe to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice - politics.»
«(...) tide of memories which surges toward any collector as he contemplates his possessions. Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. (...) For what else is this collection but a disorder to which habit has accommodated itself to such an extent that it can appear as order? (...) And indeed, if there is a counterpart to the confusion of a library, it is the order of its catalogue.»
«(...) for a true collector the whole background of an item adds up to a magic encyclopedia whose quintessence is the fate of his objects. (...) One has only to watch a collector handle the objects in his glass case. As he holds them in his hands, he seems to be seeing through them into their distant past as though inspired. (...)»
«On the other hand, one of the finest memories of a collector is the moment when he rescued a book to which he might never have given a thought, much less a wishful look, because he found it lonely and abandoned on the market place and bought it to give it its freedom - the way the prince bought a slave girl in The Arabian Nights. To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is sometwhere on his shelves.»
«(...) the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of collectors? (...) Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, "And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?" "Not one-tenth. I don't suppose you use your Sèvres china evey day?"»
«(...) the phenomenon of collecting loses its meaning as it loses its personal owner. Even though public collections may be less objectionable socially and more useful academically than private collections, this objects get their due only in the latter.»
«A Igreja de Santa Eufémia está situada em Santa Eufémia da Serra. Local de peregrinação de devotos, é tida como o local da serra de Sintra mais remotamente habitado, provavelmente desde cerca 4000 a.C. No Século XVII um cavaleiro francês mandou construir a capela de Santa Eufémia no local onde terá existido o templo dedicado à Lua. A Igreja de Santa Eufémia eleva-se a 463 metros, e em dias limpos é privilegiada com uma vista deslumbrante.» (Guia da Cidade)
«Este he o logar onde apareceo a milagroza Santa Eufemia da Cerra de Cintra filha de hu Rei Barbaro e gentio filho da cidade de Braga (?) chamado Cathelio (...) Sua Mai tambem gentia chamada Calcia (?) q a teve e a oito Irmans (...) e todas forão martires por mandado de Seu Pai no Segundo Seculo (?) (...) de Jezus Cristo em 123 a qual Santa he advogada de todas a enfermidades do corpo e principalmente da Sarna e do figado e corpos chagados que tudo Cura com agoa da Sua fonte que aSim o dizemos que tomão os banhos no seu tanque E esta pegada que se vê nesta pedra dizem q (...) onde a milagora Santa puzera os pés quando apareseu. Anno de 1787»