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[[Image:Black Square by Malevich.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Black Square]]'' (1915) by [[Kazimir Malevich]]]] | [[Image:Black Square by Malevich.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Black Square]]'' (1915) by [[Kazimir Malevich]]]] | ||
- | [[Image:Theatre from Ars Memoriae by Robert Fludd.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Ars Memoriae]]'': The [[Theatre]] ([[1619]]) - [[Robert Fludd]] | + | [[Image:Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man]]'' (1884), a composition by [[Alphonse Allais]]. It consists of nine [[blank]] measures and predates comparable works by [[John Cage]] ("[[4′33″]]") by a considerable margin.]] |
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- | “In the [[illusion|illusory]] [[babel]]s of language, an [[artist]] might [[avant-garde|advance]] specifically to get [[lost]], and to [[drugs|intoxicate]] himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd [[intersection]]s of [[meaning]], [[strange]] corridors of history, [[unexpected]] echoes, [[unknown]] humors, or [[void]]s of [[knowledge…]] but this quest is [[risky]], full of bottomless [[fiction]]s and endless architectures and [[counter]]-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only [[meaningless]] reverberations.” --[[Robert Smithson]]]] | + | |
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Void is an adjective used to denote containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled;
Void may also refer to:
- Lack of matter, or vacuum
- A Void (novel), translation into English of La Disparition
- Void, or Shunyata, Buddhist philosophical concept
- Nothing, is the absence of everything or a void.
Etymology
From Old French vuit, voide (modern vide).
See also
- The Void (philosophy)
- Saut dans le vide by by Yves Klein
- In modern sculpture, void is a sculptural concept
- Avoid
- Treatise on the Void by Blaise Pascal
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