Status Updates From علیه تفسیر

Many thought-provoking, interesting takes on art in general with special focus on the genre of novel and drama. The author tends to exclude non-Western reference points, the essays orbit around artists of Europe and North America. Which is not surprising since most of them were written in the ‘60s and Susan is American but I think she still missed out on a great deal of valuable references.

Four essays down. Reminder to compile notes on notes later

None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a work of art what it said because one knew (or thought one knew) what it did. From now to the end of consciousness, we are stuck with the task of defending art.