Martin Heidegger on Art

Heidegger states that there is always a beginning when art happens as a thrust enters history so that history either starts over or begins in the first place:

History means here not a sequence in time of events of whatever sort, however important. History is the transporting of a people into its appointed task as entrance into that people's endowment (77).

Heidegger explains: "Art lets truth originate" (77). The other world into which we are allowed to enter through art is characterized by what Heidegger calls the Open, a term he derives from Rilke. He states that Rilke uses the term to refer to the whole draft to which all beings are given over. "Open" here means something that does not block off, which implies that most things do indeed "block off" and that poetry and art enable us to find a route to truth that is not blocked. Actually, as used by Heidegger, the term "open" has a slightly different meaning. He says that the Open admits but that this does not mean it grants access to something that

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bout both martial arts and Westlake, China, this would be a work of art that allowed them into a world outside the ordinary. This is because the work possesses and conveys its own truth as found in the composition, the coloring, the mixture of line and curve, the moment captured in a particular way. What the Eastern viewer is familiar with is the place, the actions of Tai Chi, the meaning of the martial arts, and so on. He or she might even know the people who are portrayed in the work. What they become engaged in as they view the work of art, however, is a truth that is created or expressed in the act of making this photograph. Heidegger uses a Greek temple as an example and states that the temple itself portrays nothing but is simply a building standing in the middle of a valley. Within the temple is the figure of the god, concealed inside the temple: By means of the temple, the god is present in the temple. This presence of the god is in itself the extension and delimitation of the precinct as a holy precinct. The temple and its precinct, however, do not fade away into the indefinite. It is the temple-work that first fits together and at the same time gathers around itself the unity of those paths and relations in wh
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