My Sweet Nothing » Susan Sontag http://www.mysweetnothing.com an open (note)book about art and language Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:09:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/07/148719445/ http://www.mysweetnothing.com/2009/07/148719445/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 05:25:00 +0000 Lisa http://mysweetnothing.tumblr.com/post/148719445 Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, much less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art—and, by analogy, our own experience—more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than show what it means.—Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation

Did not know until just recently that this essay is named for her friend Paul Thek

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