Picasso's Woman Throwing a Stone

As told 3

“It's a monstrosity, but somehow the essence of a woman throwing a stone is here in, more directly than a realist painting.”
37:08 Lubitsch: Cynicism, Humour and Commitment2018-05-07 · 1:30:23

“It's a monstrosity but somehow sorry for using this Platonic term somehow the essence of a woman throwing a stone is here in more directly than a realist painting.”
50:11 Slavoj Žižek receives the Gold Medal (English, May 2018)2018-05-07 · 1:44:03

“this is painting as thinking this brutal distortion of reality which precisely in distorting reality brings out the idea of a woman throwing a stone”
13:52 48 Hours: The Urgency of Scary Intelligence and Glamorous Monsters2018-05-03 · 1:10:25

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

materialist Platonism ×3 thinking in art ×2 eidetic variation ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Pablo Picasso3 Louis Aragon2 Damir Arsenijević2 Laurent de Sutter2 Germaine Greer2 Simone de Beauvoir2 Daniel Cohn-Bendit2 Mariano Rajoy1

alongside works

Woman Throwing a Stone2 The Smiling Lieutenant2 Sex and the City2 Summa Theologica3 Soviet Constitution of '361 Newsweek1 The Greening of Greenland1 DiEM251

Told together with

50% Roman Viaduct Statues 2 shared talks 50% De Sade's Juliette undeadness 2 shared talks 40% CNN Greening of Greenland 2 shared talks 38% Aquinas on Paradise and Hell 3 shared talks 27% Tom and Jerry 3 shared talks

Every retelling 3

37:08 Lubitsch: Cynicism, Humour and Commitment2018-05-07 · 1:30:23

Žižek uses this Picasso painting, which violently dismembers a woman's figure into abstract fragments, as a model of 'thinking in art': disfiguration brings out the essence, fury, fragility, more directly than realist reproduction., illustrating thinking in art,materialist Platonism,abstraction and essence

50:11 Slavoj Žižek receives the Gold Medal (English, May 2018)2018-05-07 · 1:44:03

Žižek praises this painting as 'thinking in art' because it does not reproduce reality holistically but violently cuts the woman into pieces (abstraction) to reveal her essence (fury, fragility), making it a 'monstrosity' that captures the essence more directly than realism., illustrating thinking in art,materialist Platonist

13:52 48 Hours: The Urgency of Scary Intelligence and Glamorous Monsters2018-05-03 · 1:10:25

Picasso's grotesque distortion of a woman on a beach throwing a stone immediately renders the idea (inner form) of such a figure. Žižek uses it to argue that the violent decomposition of reality is how the Idea appears., illustrating Platonic materialism,eidetic variation,Hegel on understanding / Verstand