Artworks · Arthur Ou

Paul Mpagi Sepuya Reading 4.0311: One Name Stands for One Thing, Another for Another Thing, and They Are Combined With One Another. In This Way the Whole Group—Like A Tableau Vivant—Presents a State of Affairs.

2019 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Arash Fewzee Reading 4.2211: Even if the World Is Infinitely Complex, so That Every Fact Consists of Infinitely Many States of Affairs and Every State of Many Objects, There Would Still Have to Be Objects and States of Affairs

2019 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Pradeep Dalal Reading 4.021: A Proposition Is a Picture of Reality: for it I Understand a Proposition, I Know the Situation It Represents. And I Understand the Proposition. Without Having Had Its Sense Explained to Me.

2019 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Lucas Blalock Reading 3.221: Objects Can Only Be Named. Signs Are Their Representatives. I Can Only Speak About Them: I Cannot Put Them Into Words. Propositions Can Only Say How Things Are, Not What They Are.

2019 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Leslie Hewitt Reading 2.1511: That Is How a Picture Is Attached to Reality: It Reaches Right Out to It

2019 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Viktoria Binschtok Reading 6.13: Logic Is Not a Body of Doctrine, but a Mirror-Image of the World. Logic Is Transcendental

2018 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Tatiana Krongberg Reading 5.511: How Can Logic—All-Embracing Logic, Which Mirrors the World—Use Such Peculiar Crotchets and Contrivances? Only Because They Are All Connected With One Another in an Infinitely Fine Network, the Great Mirror

2018 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Amir Zaki Reading 2.161: There Must Be Something Identical in a Picture and What It Depicts, to Enable the One to Be a Picture of the Otherat All.

2018 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Lisa Tan Reading 2.223: In Order to Tell Whether the Picture Is True or False We Must Compare It With Reality

2018 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Nigel Shafran Reading 6.44: It Is Not How Things Are in the World

2017 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Barbara Probst reading 2.15: The Fact That the Elements of a Picture Are Related to One ANother in a Determinate Way Represents That Things Are Related to One Another in the Same Way. Let Us Called This Connexion on Its Elements the Structure of the Picture, and Let Us Call the Possibility of This Structure the Pictorial Form of the Picture.

2016 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Barbara Kasten Reading 4.1212: What Can Be Shown, Cannot Be Said

2016 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.3 × 17.6 cm (8 13/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Paper: 25 × 20.2 cm (9 7/8 × 8 in.)

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Michele Abeles Reading 5.634: This Is Connected With the Fact That No Part of Our Experience Is at the Same Time A Priori. Whatever We See Could Be Other Than It Is. Whatever We Can Describe at All Could Be Other Than It Is. There Is No A Priori Order of Things

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Anne Collier Reading 5.5303: Roughly Speaking, to Say of Two Things That They Are Identical Is Nonsense, and to Say of One Thing That It Is Identical With Itself Is to Say Nothing at All

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Adam Putnam Reading 2.014: Objects Contain the Possibility of All Situations

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Noritoshi Hirakawa Reading 6.373: The World Is Independent of My Will

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Brandon Lattu reading 4.116: Everything That Can be Thought at all Can Be Thought Clearly. Everything That Can Be Put Into Words Can Be Put Clearly

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Lisa Oppenheim reading 3.326: In Order to Recognize a Symbol by Its Sign We Must Observe How It Is Used With a Sense

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Susanne Kriemann Reading 5.5423: To Perceive a Complex Means to Perceive That Its Constituents Are Related to One Another in Such and Such Way. This No Doubt Also Explains Why There Are Two Possible Ways of Seeing the Figure as a Cube; and All Similar Phenomena. For We Really See Two Different Facts. (If I Look in the First Place at the Corners Marked A and Only Glance at the B's, Then the A's Appear to be in Front, and Vice Versa)

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Luisa Lambri Reading 5.63: I Am My World. (The Microcosm)

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Phil Chang Reading 5.632: The Subject Does Not belong to the World: Rather, It Is a Limit of the World

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Uta Barth Reading 4.015: The Possibility of All Imagery, of All Our Pictorial Modes of Expression, is Contained in the Logic of Depiction

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Eileen Quinlan Reading 5.61: Logic Pervades the World: the Limits of the World Are Also Its Limits. So We Cannot Say in Logic, 'The World Has This in It, and This, but Not That.' For That Would Appear to Presuppose That We Were Excluding Certain Possibilities, and This Cannot Be the Case, Since It Would Require That Logic Should Go Beyond the Limits of the World; for Only in That Way Could It View Those Limits From the Other Side As Well. We Cannot Think What We Cannot Think; So What Cannot Think We Cannot Say Either

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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James Welling Reading 2.0123: If I Know an Object I Also Know All Its Possible Occurrences in States of Affairs. (Every One of These Possibilities Must be Part of the nature of the Object.) A New Possibility Cannot Be Discovered Later

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Moyra Davey Reading 4.114: It Must Set Limits to What Can Be Thought; And, in Doing So, to What Cannot Be Thought. It Must Set Limits to What Cannot Be Thought by Working Outwards Through What Can Be Thought

2015 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shannon Ebner Reading 6.36311: It Is an Hypothesis That the Sun Will Rise Tomorrow: and This Means That We Do not Know Whether It Will Rise

2014 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Michael Queenland Reading 3.01: The Totality of True Thoughts Is a Picture of the World

2014 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Annette Kelm Reading 3.001: 'A State of Affairs Is Thinkable': What This Means Is That We Can Picture It to Ourselves

2014 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

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Joachim Schmid Reading 6.51: Skepticism Is Not Irrefutable, but Obviously Nonsensical, When It Tries to Raise Doubts Where No Questions Can Be Asked. For Doubt Can Exist Only Where a Question Exists, a Question Only Where an Answer Exists, and an Answer Only Where Something Can Be Said

2014 · Gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Kundmanngasse (Shovels)

2012 · Gelatin silver print

20.4 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago