Clearing
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"From the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing" --"The Creative Act" (1957) by Marcel Duchamp "In the midst of being as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting. Thought of in reference to what is, to beings, this clearing is in a greater degree than are beings. This open center is therefore not surrounded by what is; rather, the lighting center itself encircles all that is, like the Nothing which we scarcely know. That which is can only be, as a being, if it stands within and stands out within what is lighted in this clearing. Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are."--The Origin of the Work of Art (1950) by Martin Heidegger |
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Clearing may refer to:
- Glade (geography), a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
- Deforestation, the clearing away of trees to make farmland
- Clearing (album), an album by Fred Frith
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