The Importance of Meaning in Art

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Sally Kohn: Meaning in this very local sense, I think, makes this. So then the question is, does that word capture something about the interpretive process? She says if you're talking about the oranges in the godfather, if he really didn't, as far as he can tell, you give him sodium pentathol, he's like, no, I mean, he would have oranges.Kohn: It also matters how we within the culture, compared to other works of art, in that like how that comes across also matters. All these things matter.

What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Does it matter what Kubrick and Arthur C. Clark thinks about the end of 2001? Or is the artist’s interpretation just one interpretation among many once the text is out in the world? We explore the question of authorial intent, and brace yourselves - this is just about as postmodern as David gets.

Plus – do we have what it takes to get an invite to the thought criminals club?

Links

The Party is Canceled [newyorker.com]

Was I Wrong About The Irishman? by Thomas Flight [youtube.com]

Authorial Intent [wikipedia.org]