Blind Man Looking For A Black Cat In A Dark Room

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there starts with the premise that art is not a code that needs cracking.

Blind man looking for a black cat in a dark room.

With science the cat is present with philosophy absent and with. The cat s responses yearning and mournful seemed to me to echo the depth and doubt of morandi s work. A blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn t there and finding it. James mentioned the black cat expression in the first chapter of some problems in philosophy.

Contemporary art museum st. September 11 2009 january 3 2010 ica london. Read reviews from world s largest community for readers. A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there.

Also in 1942 a book reviewer in the cornell law quarterly extended the humorous passage by contrasting three professions. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there book. December 3 2009 january 31. Dashiell hammett in the dain curse 1929 referred to a blind man in a dark room hunting for a black hat that wasn t there.

The show curated by anthony huberman took its title from a line attributed to charles darwin. A theologian is the man who finds it h l. Celebrating the experience of not knowing and unlearning the artists in this exhibition understand the world in speculative terms eager to keep art separate from explanation. A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there.

Ernest gellner referred to an east european joke about science philosophy and marxism as looking for a cat in a dark room with various consequences. With his obscure and uncertain speculations as to the intimate nature and causes of things the philosopher is likened to a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there.