7/7/2023 0 Comments On photography by susan sontag![]() ![]() As she famously said in her essay "Against Interpretation" "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." (Which is to say, in part, that we have to remember that art is for pleasure, and not just for critics to pick apart as an intellectual exercise.) Or rather, it seems to conform to her own "sensualistic" view of criticism. It might be better to see the work as an abstract artistic enterprise, as much as it is an intellectual one. She will refer to dozens, or even hundreds of works in a single clause. ![]() There is no bibliography, and the works cited in the text are dealt with briskly, treating the previous 100+ years of photography as a whole corpus which the reader is presumed to be familiar with. Though the text is a work of criticism in a broad sense, it is not academic.
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