In designing a circle of stones about a pool for a zen garden, one would take a single rock and move it ever so slightly out of alignment, knowing that the mind's eye would then have to respond, participating in the creation of circularity itself, a far more powerful, vivid effect. Gertrude Stein employed this same gestalt principle of the absent subject in her portraits and in Tender Buttons, enabling language and meaning to suddenly blossom like the unfolding of a rose.
- ISBN10 0937804460
- ISBN13 9780937804469
- Publish Date 1 January 1992
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Roof Books,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 71
- Language English