Ep. 246: Susan Sontag on Interpreting Art (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Reduction of the Art of Art
"We are an over intellectualized, innervated, overstimulated society," writes Wes Anderson. "Art is one of those things that allows us to directly have a semi religious experience of it" He says if we're trying to strip out the style from the content, and just get at the content, 'that's where we would draw the line'Anderson: It's as if you're saying, well, I can say better what the artist was trying to say than the artist themselves.
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