The Question of Understanding Otherwise
Rehabilitating the Interpretation of Art
©2021
Monographs
124 Pages
Summary
Interpretation has historically been understood as a method to shrink the distance between the interpreter and the interpreted. This view has dominated the comprehension of the interpretation of art: it always entails the interpretation of something, and this something must then govern our effort to understand it. If not, we are left with mere subjective whims. This book tries to modify this well-worn view by altering the dualist position to incorporate the very object within the sense-making activity. Interpretation rather becomes the creative making of something different, and this explains why it is deemed unfinished. The notion of “re-contextualization” covers this in between operation (between work and interpretation), and the very object of interpretation remains just an enabling condition of transference. Interpretation preserves the challenge, by re-making and re-locating meaning.
Key Takeaways
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Art is What Makes Life More Important than Art
- 2 Interpretation as a Mode of Sense-Making
- 3 A Myriad of Mysteries
- 4 Re-contextualization
- 5 The House of Mirrors, and Cards
- Illustrations
- References
- Index
Preface
I am looking for the point
at which human life is the answer.
-Willy Kyrklund
Not angels not humans,
and already the knowing animals are aware
that we are not really at home in
our interpreted world.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
Details
- Pages
- 124
- Publication Year
- 2021
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631861707
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631861714
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631861721
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631851562
- DOI
- 10.3726/b18659
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (September)
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2021. 124 pp., 4 fig. col., 1 fig. b/w.
