Comments on: TID 19: Seen the Mona Lisa in France http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2009/01/13/tid-19-seen-the-mona-lisa-in-france/ I never touched it, honest! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:35:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2009/01/13/tid-19-seen-the-mona-lisa-in-france/comment-page-1/#comment-11455 Jeremy Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:05:21 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2009/01/13/tid-19-seen-the-mona-lisa-in-france/#comment-11455 <a href='#comment-11454' rel="nofollow">@Biopolitical</a> - That is fascinating. There is definitely something about "the thing itself" that distorts perceptions. Like the re-attributions of all those Rembrandts. It changed their value, but did it change their status as works of art? @Biopolitical – That is fascinating. There is definitely something about “the thing itself” that distorts perceptions. Like the re-attributions of all those Rembrandts. It changed their value, but did it change their status as works of art?

]]> By: Biopolitical http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2009/01/13/tid-19-seen-the-mona-lisa-in-france/comment-page-1/#comment-11454 Biopolitical Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:01:40 +0000 http://jeremycherfas.net/wp/Archive/2009/01/13/tid-19-seen-the-mona-lisa-in-france/#comment-11454 Why should seeing the real thing — badly — be so important? Not even "seeing" it. I once read that a military museum had small-scale reproductions of the real planes that were hanging from the ceiling, so that blind people could touch them and feel their shapes. Still, blind people always asked for assurances that the real planes were hanging up above. Why should seeing the real thing — badly — be so important?

Not even “seeing” it. I once read that a military museum had small-scale reproductions of the real planes that were hanging from the ceiling, so that blind people could touch them and feel their shapes. Still, blind people always asked for assurances that the real planes were hanging up above.

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