Taussig spends some time considering his sketches. Even he admits that he is not good at drawing, as that skill is conventionally evaluated, and his illustration of the couple in the tunnel is pretty difficult to make out without explanation. But this is supposedly the point, that the sketch and the note are both enigmatic, testifying rather to the anthropologist’s form of attention than to the scene itself. Drawing, Taussig explains, is wrongly repressed by our rational culture, encouraged only in childhood but gradually sidelined and ultimately erased by writing as we mature. Photography also is inferior to drawing, in his opinion, because of its mechanical, documentary claim to be objective: “Photography is a taking, the drawing a making.”
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:48:45 +0000
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