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For written works we often hear that analysis doesn't need to depend on the author's intent. Why shouldn't that also hold true for visual art?
by mbg721 4y ago
For written works we often hear that analysis doesn't need to depend on the author's intent. Why shouldn't that also hold true for visual art?
- pessimizer 4y ago> Why shouldn't that also hold true for visual art? To answer that, we'd have to say more about why the meaning of a written work doesn't depend on the author's intent than "we often hear."
- harimau777 4y agoI'd say that the author's intent is only relevant to the question of what the author intended their work to mean. I don't see any reason it would be relevant to any other insights or significance that a reader gains from the text. It's similar to how the fact that the cat command was intended to be used to concatenate files is irrelevant to it's more common use to dump a file to stdout.
- Xylakant 4y agoThe analysis of visual art does not depend on the authors intent any more than for written work. But changing the orientation of a piece would better be compared to changing the order of the words than analyzing the work. Hanging it upside down changes the work, not your analysis of it.