silverfae9 | exigence

"Holzer and many other artists, like Trockel, also make use of personal pronouns. By using the words 'I,' 'you,' 'we,' and other such words, the artist is drawing the viewer into their vision. The person looking at the piece has become an active participant. This sort of word choice leads us to feel that we have thought like this before. Nietzsche says that everyday people think, 'I do not want to see anything that contradicts the prevalent opinion. Am I called to discover new truths? There are too many old ones, as it is' (100). By choosing words that are familiar, words that we use in every day conversation, we feel that the truths revealed by the statement we have been confronted with are truths we should be comfortable with..." Rhetoric, by definition, is impossible to define. I feel like I'm spending 15 pages talking in a big circle: word art is rhetorical because it uses rhetoric. Duh.