3rd Address to "Le Nez" (B): The Causal World of Order and Beauty 3rd Judgment on the Basis of Abstract Thinking

Produced between 1962 and 1963, five sculptures comprise Rabinowitch’s series "Five Addresses to Giacometti’s "Le Nez" - Five Judgments on the Basis of Abstract Thinking". Each one is dedicated to Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture "Le Nez" (1947), which features the profile of a human head with an elongated nose, similar to that of Pinocchio, suspended in a metal structure like the one seen here. "Order" is suggested by the tools of measurement and "Beauty," a quality that is impossible to measure, is addressed by the inclusion of organic objects. The second part of the title comes from the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant’s "Critique of Judgment" (1790), also known as the third critique.