bulwark, rotation, dialectic, pull a fast one. Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.

Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You.

April 7, 2024

Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art

This exhibition will explore the twin themes of solitude and togetherness in Chinese art. For more than two thousand years, reclusion—removing oneself from society—has been presented as the ideal condition for mental cultivation and transcending worldly troubles. At the same time, communion with like-minded people has been celebrated as essential to the human experience. This choice, to be alone or to be together, has been central to the lives of thinkers and artists, and Chinese art abounds with images of figures who pursued both paths—as well as those who wove them together in complex and surprising ways. Companions in Solitude, presented in two rotations, will bring together more than 120 works of painting, calligraphy, and decorative arts that illuminate this choice—depictions of why and how people have sought space from the world or attempted to bridge the divide between themselves and others. In the wake of 2020, a year that has isolated us physically but connected us virtually in unprecedented ways, this exploration of premodern Chinese reclusion and communion will invite meditation on the fracture and facture of human connection in our own time.

Rotation one: July 31, 2021–January 9, 2022
Rotation two: January 31, 2022–August 14, 2022

rotation

音節ro • ta • tion
発音routéiʃən
[名]
1U回転；循環；《天文》（地球・天体の）自転（⇒revolution）

Every star is in rotation.
星はすべて自転している
1aC（１回の）回転
2UC（選手・仕事などの）輪番，交替（制）

in [by] rotation
交替で，順番に
on a regular rotation
輪番で
3U《農業》輪作；《林業》（植林・伐採の）循環；U《数学》（図形の）回転

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bulwarkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音を聞く プレーヤー再生

ピン留め

単語を追加

主な意味	砦(とりで)、堡塁(ほうるい)、防波堤、防護者、(船の)舷牆(げんしよう)

We recall that the dialectic is rooted not only in the Platonic dialogue but in the Mishna.





曾天從 (1910~2007)，一代哲學名師，著作等身。
《曾天從教授百歲冥誕紀念集 》(2011)，有趣，有內容，值得拜讀。
我錄陳榮波先生的〈緬懷恩師〉(頁290~92)中的筆記：

pull a fast one

informal

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to successfully deceive someone:

You paid too much - I think he pulled a fast one on you.

dialectic

(also dialectics)

NOUN

• 1mass noun, usually treated as singular The art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions.

  
  
• 2mass noun, usually treated as singular Inquiry into metaphysical contradictions and their solutions.

  
  

  1. 2.1The existence or action of opposing social forces, concepts, etc.

The ancient Greeks used the term dialectic to refer to various methods of reasoning and discussion in order to discover the truth. More recently, Kant applied the term to the criticism of the contradictions which arise from supposing knowledge of objects beyond the limits of experience, e.g. the soul. Hegel applied the term to the process of thought by which apparent contradictions (which he termed thesis and antithesis) are seen to be part of a higher truth (synthesis)

ADJECTIVE

• Relating to dialectic or dialectics; dialectical.

  
  

Origin

Late Middle English from Old French dialectique or Latin dialectica, from Greek dialektikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of debate’, from dialegesthai ‘converse with’ (see dialogue).