Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966 Quotes.
Read inspirational, motivational, funny and famous quotes by Susan Sontag.. — p. 7 (Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)) Tags: Interpretation, revenge, intellect, art. Share. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art.
The pieces in Against Interpretation, and Other Essays are shorter, more specific, and less philosophical on the whole than the more developed essays which appear in Susan Sontag’s later.
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays.
The title essay of Against Interpretation, and Other Essays is a major case in point. Sontag clearly does not believe that the message is more essential than the medium which transmits that message.
Read inspirational, motivational, funny and famous quotes by Susan Sontag. Susan Sontag Quotes 1933 -. — p. 7 (Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)) Tags: Interpretation, revenge, intellect, art. Share. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenges the victim-blaming in the language often used to describe diseases and those who suffer from them. Teasing out the similarities between public perspectives on cancer (the paradigmatic disease of the 20th century before the appearance of AIDS), and tuberculosis (the symbolic illness of the 19th.
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equal value as valid topics, shown here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'.