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Monday, February 20, 2023
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
That whole essay is just wall-to-wall quotables: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54889e73e4b0a2c1f9891289/t/564b6702e4b022509140783b/1447782146111/Sontag-Against+Interpretation.pdf
It's just an amazing essay, isn't it? There's a couple of other really killer ones in the collection of the same title. By the time I read it I had already formulated similar sorts of views about music and arts criticism (how reductive it was to convert things into messages, statements, even "communication" is a limited way to think of art) with a bit of help from Monsieur Roland Barthes. So when I read Against Interpretation, the feeling was less revelation and more annoyance that someone had put across these points with such punch and eloquence more than 2 decades earlier.
That whole essay is just wall-to-wall quotables: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54889e73e4b0a2c1f9891289/t/564b6702e4b022509140783b/1447782146111/Sontag-Against+Interpretation.pdf
ReplyDeleteIt's just an amazing essay, isn't it? There's a couple of other really killer ones in the collection of the same title. By the time I read it I had already formulated similar sorts of views about music and arts criticism (how reductive it was to convert things into messages, statements, even "communication" is a limited way to think of art) with a bit of help from Monsieur Roland Barthes. So when I read Against Interpretation, the feeling was less revelation and more annoyance that someone had put across these points with such punch and eloquence more than 2 decades earlier.
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