Comments on: Taking leave of the world. http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/taking-leave-of-the-world/ Itineraries of curious objects and collections. Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:15:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tom Stephenson http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/taking-leave-of-the-world/#comment-454 Tom Stephenson Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:12:41 +0000 http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/?p=541#comment-454 How strange - last night I had the overwhelming urge to cover myself in bed with a black umbrella (there's nothing wrong with our roof) like the picture, 'Carl Spitzweg, Der arme Poet'. Maybe this blog is getting to me.... How strange – last night I had the overwhelming urge to cover myself in bed with a black umbrella (there’s nothing wrong with our roof) like the picture, ‘Carl Spitzweg, Der arme Poet’.

Maybe this blog is getting to me….

]]> By: MadSilence to&w http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/taking-leave-of-the-world/#comment-416 MadSilence to&w Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:06:24 +0000 http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/?p=541#comment-416 Contemporary art has replaced formal religion for many, so it may be appropriate that we now have an art hermit. But if the traditional religious hermit escapes worldly life to dwell on the spiritual, how does the Manchester Museum’s hermit escape visual culture, if still linked by digital & audiovisual media? And what will the museum hermit dwell upon? Logic dictates the museum hermit should abstain from all forms of visual culture, to dwell on the non-visual: the culture of the mind & spirit. So cleave those digital & audiovisual links! The ascetic life is linked with mysticism, a religious movement found in all the world's religions. What is the contemporary art world's mystical movement? Contemporary art has replaced formal religion for many, so it may be appropriate that we now have an art hermit. But if the traditional religious hermit escapes worldly life to dwell on the spiritual, how does the Manchester Museum’s hermit escape visual culture, if still linked by digital & audiovisual media? And what will the museum hermit dwell upon? Logic dictates the museum hermit should abstain from all forms of visual culture, to dwell on the non-visual: the culture of the mind & spirit. So cleave those digital & audiovisual links! The ascetic life is linked with mysticism, a religious movement found in all the world’s religions. What is the contemporary art world’s mystical movement?

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