{"id":289,"date":"2017-02-14T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=289"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:50:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T22:50:20","slug":"art-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/art-and-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0recurrent theme in Orhan Pamuk&#8217;s\u00a0<em>My Name is Red<\/em> is the the relationship between time and art. Stork tells three stories to suggest the idea that books &#8220;last until the end of the world.&#8221; (69) It is interesting to consider that while miniaturists, artists and even their masters pass away &#8211; such as with Elegant Effendi and Enishte Effendi, books and manuscripts\u00a0may be bound to be finished and live on.\u00a0Whereas the miniaturists in the novel speak about the art they create as the only focus of their life and the proof of their devotion to Allah, it is possible the art doesn&#8217;t need the artist the way the artist needs the art. However,\u00a0Enishte Effendi stated the opposite when he claimed that\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;In the end, our methods will die out, our colors will fade. No one will care about our book and our paintings [&#8230;]. Not only our own art, but every single work made in this world over the years will vanish in fires, be destroyed by worms or be lost out of neglect&#8221; (171). While it is true historical events and time sometimes destroy art works, I cannot help but feel like humans create art in order to leave a mark that is going to transgress the boundaries of time in ways we can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0recurrent theme in Orhan Pamuk&#8217;s\u00a0My Name is Red is the the relationship between time and art. Stork tells three stories to suggest the idea that books &#8220;last until the end of the world.&#8221; (69) It is interesting to consider that while miniaturists, artists and even their masters pass away &#8211; such as with Elegant Effendi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/art-and-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art and Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}