From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Thu, Jun 4th 1998, 21:01
At 11:24 AM -0600 6/4/98, you wrote: > >How can there be a failed interpretation? I would consider, for example, a situation wherein the artist intended a meaning and the viewer found only vacuity a failed interpretation. A more precise term, perhaps, is a failed communication. >I have always thought that the >beauty of art is the fact that any interpretation can (and should) be >different for everyone. That's one theory. Another is that art only succeeds if the audience reads the interpretation which the artist intended. It's back to the questions: Who owns the interpretation? Is interpretation monolithic, set by the artist, or democratic? Of course, one can make their own interpretation of an artwork, but is that valid, or potentially a misinterpretation? 3