ARTE 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation
12 May 2016
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We now live in a society where we need to interpret artwork. Art is also to create some meaning to it. Nothing else speaks like this: it"s a form of knowledge. You need to be fully open to the artwork. What effect does it have on you: this is how you"ll interpret the meaning of the artwork. If art doesn"t have a meaning, then its only there for the beauty of it. Great pieces of art will provoke something in you. It should be about the unity of foreign content. How we relate to one another: our place in our world. There is something in the artwork, that sticks with you. Artwork comes out of one"s mind and feeling. Misomus : people think they like art but they deeply dislike it. People interpret things because they are afraid of what they might not know. Art is forever changed when it is interpreted.
