onsdag, oktober 28, 2009

art is seduction

"Hence, too, the peculiar dependence of a work of art, however expressive, upon the cooperation of the person having the experience, for one may see what is "said" but remain unmoved, either through dullness or distraction. Art is seduction, not rape. A work of art proposes a type of experience designed to manifest the quality of imperiousness. But art cannot seduce without the complicity of the experiencing subject".
- Susan Sontag, "On Style" (1965).

À propos intressant inlägg hos On Word Arts.

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