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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag
Art, Revenge, Women

Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Susan Sontag
Art, Revenge, Sensual
Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''

Susan Sontag
Art, Revenge, Order

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Susan Sontag
Art, Revenge, Sensual
Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.149, Macmillan

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