"The Human in Captivity" A juxtaposition between the art within the Cloisters in New York City and the architecture of the Cloisters itself
"... In the Middle Ages there was a hierarchic ensemble of places: sacred places and profane places; protected places and open, exposed places ... It was this complete hierarchy, this opposition, this intersection of places that constituted what could be very roughly be called medieval space: the space of emplacement" (Of Other Spaces, Foucault 22).
The Cloisters, a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Fort Tryon Park, poses an interesting juxtaposition--a roughly hewn building of stone …
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…and not, usually define points of no return that humans are afraid to cross. It is this hesitation that illustrates the true human capacity for captivity. Just like the unfortunate unicorn, we too are tied down to values and beliefs that we sometimes hold above our own happiness.
Works Cited
Foucault, Michael. Of Other Spaces.
The Unicorn Tapestries. The Cloisters, a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York.
Vidler, Anthony. The Architectural Uncanny.
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