On the impossibility of close reading
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On the impossibility of close reading
https://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading tc.Currint Anthropology Volume 37, Number J, April 1996<1 1996 by The Wcnncr-Grcn Foundation lor Anthrcpoỉogical Research. All rights reserved oot:-j2O4.'9 On the impossibility of close reading assume that close reading is universally to be desued: the more accurately objects arc described, the more responsibly they can be interpreted. CloseOn the impossibility of close reading
reading IS said to provide a check on inadvertent projection and inappropriate theorizing, and It is thought to be an ideal that is not specific to ahttps://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading ssential interpretive anchor, since a routine or dcmonsưably misinformed interpretation could then be said to be better than one that attends more precisely to the peculiarities of the object. For these reasons, even though individual close readings may lie taken to be flawed or biased and even thou On the impossibility of close reading gh the critique of close readings is a ccnưal responsibility of any rival interpretation, the idea of close reading itself goes largely unanalyzed. HeOn the impossibility of close reading
re 1 argue three things about close reading, using Alexander Marshack's analyses Ilf prehistoric European artifacts as an example. First, there is no https://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading t seems closest in any given case is the one where it becomes most difficult to distinguish between properties inherent in the artifact and those that are part of the act of interpretation. Hurd, the closest readings (such aS Marshack's) present the best opportunities to understand what a given disc On the impossibility of close reading ipline understands by basic terms such as image, notation, sign, mark, and decoration.JAMKS KI.KINS is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, andOn the impossibility of close reading
Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (37 s. Wabash, Chicago, 111. 60603, U.S A.|. He was educated at the Univer sity of Chicago. Hhttps://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading y and related disciplines, the history of artists’ techniques, and theories of representation. He has published "What Really Happens in Pictures: Misreading with Nelson Goodman" (Word and Image 9:349-67), "On Mun-struously Ambiguous Paintings" (History and Theory 32:227-47), "Between Picture and Pro On the impossibility of close reading position: Torturing Paintings in Wittgenstein's Tractatus" (Visible Language, in press), and "The Signs of Writing: On Some Parallels between the UndeOn the impossibility of close reading
ciphcred Prehistoric Vinca Script and Andrea Mantegna's The Hattie of the Sea Cods (Semiotics. in press). The present paper was submitted $ XU 94 and https://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading gy, anthropology, visual theory, and criticism of all sorts—it is virtually never questioned, and in general it seems to be a good idea in any field, for any purpose, and under any theoretical regimen. Its genealogy begins where art history does, with antiquari-anism and connoisscurship in the 17th On the impossibility of close reading and 18th centuries, and ascends through 19th-century "Morellian methods" (that is, investigations of charactenstic details in images), branching and pOn the impossibility of close reading
roliferating in the 20th century into style analysis, formalism, and iconography. Carlo Ginzburg's speculative essay on Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Hhttps://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading t history, and detective novels could have been expanded by consideration of the way the same term is used in literary criticism—including Ginzburg's own essay, which becomes an example of the method it exposits.It is questionable how much sense It makes to call such far-flung practices a "method," On the impossibility of close reading as Ginzburg docs; instead I would say that the different methods used by Panofsky, Morelli, Freud, and others grow from the enabling concept of closeOn the impossibility of close reading
reading. The transparent nature of the concept would seem to forestall any direct analysis or critique—whatever a close reading may he in practice, thhttps://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading utes about evidence or theory. The unobjectionable universality of close reading is most apparent in our inability to think what kind of visual artifact (or text, or crime scene, or narrative! might not be best understood by close examination. In short, the purposive, vigilant scrutiny of the partic On the impossibility of close reading ularities of the object seems to be a foundational principle of understanding, whether the object is the most recent installation art or the oldest maOn the impossibility of close reading
rkings on stone. After close reading, reading can relax, and there arc many ways to interpret quickly, to make epitomes and outlines, to paraphrase anhttps://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading eading.When readings are questioned for theữ closeness or sloppiness, the purpose is usually to elicit the historians' covert agendas and to show how theory determines what and how we see. But that kind of critique has more to do with a local construction of theory and of visual structure than with On the impossibility of close reading the idea of closeness or close reading per sc. It is possible to doubt that someone's reading is as close as it might be or to claim that it is skewedOn the impossibility of close reading
by prejudiced seeing and at the same time never begin to doubt close reading itself. Here I will be trying to open a critique of close reading, rathehttps://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading echoes of vaguer accounts and Suppressed promises of even closer readings. That which appears as close reading in innumerable texts—including Gmz-18sThis content downloaded from 198.4030.166 00 Wed 24 Jul 2013 15:52 43 PMAll use subject to J5T0R Term- sad Conditionshttps://khothu vien .com186 I CUR On the impossibility of close reading RENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume Ị7, Number 2, April 1996burg's—is a moment of incomplete awareness, built on self-contradiction and the resurgent hope of intOn the impossibility of close reading
imacy with the object.As an example I take the work of the archaeologist and art historian Alexander Marshack, in large part because I believe—though https://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading the attention not only of all archaeologists and art historians but also of anyone involved in the project of seeing and interpreting as finely as possible (Elkins 1993b). Marshack's questions arc especially exemplar)’ for art historians who are engaged in analyzing gestural brushstrokes, individual On the impossibility of close reading marks, color areas, faciure, and other phenomena that are taken to be minimal components of pictorial meaning—lexemes, in the semiotic term—out of whOn the impossibility of close reading
ich the larger signifying units of pictures are built. Semiotic art history in particular needs to he clear about the place where "subscmiotic" marks https://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading es some introducing; after examining one of his analyses, I will outline the kinds of response he has received and sketch the reasons his work exemplifies the conceptual impossibility of close reading.Marshack's ReadingsMarshack's accounts of marks on Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic bones, slate, a On the impossibility of close reading nd amber are among the most careful analyses in all of archaeology as well as in art history and criticism, visual theory, connoisseurship, and conserOn the impossibility of close reading
vation. He looks closely, literally with a microscope, hut unlike painting conservators he also looks at every mark on a Surface or artifact, and his https://khothuvienFor background and access to the German edition, see the posting on www.jameselkins.com.Send all .. fCMLdLU UIC UUUILZI via LIML aat On the impossibility of close reading intentional marks in chronological Sequence, distinguished directions in which marks were made, noted where tools were lifted from the surface and where they remained in contact, and determined how many tools or cutting edges were used to make the marks. His analyses are lessons in looking: forcible On the impossibility of close reading patient attempts to see everything, together with a concerted effort to conclude nothing that cannot be empirically demonstrated.Marshack's central cOn the impossibility of close reading
laim is that many Paleolithic markings—even tiny ones, at the threshold of unaided vision—are notations recording the phases of the moon. It is a hypoGọi ngay
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