Against Interpretation, and Other EssaysItem consists of a selection of articles and reviews written between 1962 and 1965. |
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... artist's personal intentions - advocate anything at all . The greatest artists attain a sublime neutrality . Think of Homer and Shake- speare , from whom generations of scholars and critics have vainly labored to extract particular ...
... artist's personal intentions - advocate anything at all . The greatest artists attain a sublime neutrality . Think of Homer and Shake- speare , from whom generations of scholars and critics have vainly labored to extract particular ...
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... artist , when it comes to his own work , remembering the role of chance , fatigue , external distractions , knows what the critic says to be a lie , knows that it could well have been otherwise . The sense of inevitability that a great ...
... artist , when it comes to his own work , remembering the role of chance , fatigue , external distractions , knows what the critic says to be a lie , knows that it could well have been otherwise . The sense of inevitability that a great ...
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... artist had a spe- cial value simply because it was unique , because it bore his per- sonal , individual signature ... artist's work is only his idea , his concept . This is a familiar practice in architecture , of course . And one ...
... artist had a spe- cial value simply because it was unique , because it bore his per- sonal , individual signature ... artist's work is only his idea , his concept . This is a familiar practice in architecture , of course . And one ...
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