“The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.” ThinkingHumansIdeasFactsBodyFormBlackActivityAuthorityIdealsMadCompareCharacteristicsQuestsIrrationalRationalityHuman BodyObservingObjectivityMeasuringLegitimacyEpistemologyBarbaricTruth And Knowledge Author:Cornel West
“Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.” MenHumansFactsBodyIndividualHuman BeingsCenturyFieldsMaterialsExcitingSizeWideDrawingSymbolsLandscapePrimitiveExtensionsSculptureObservingTwentieth CenturyFacetsCalligraphyPrimitive ManTots Author:Barbara Hepworth
“Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsIdeasUseBodyMightGirlNiceExampleParticularHairBasketballSizeTeethWeatherHeightObservingPlaying BasketballCurly HairNice Teeth Author:Barbara Kingsolver