Re: (idm) Abandoned Left Field

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?

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