Steve Light responded to this essay in his work "The Noise of Decomposition," while Cary Nelson wrote several responses to it, including "Soliciting Self-Knowledge."
Steve Light responded to this essay in his work "The Noise of Decomposition," while Cary Nelson wrote several responses to it, including "Soliciting Self-Knowledge." One part of this essay discusses the influence of Jose Ortega y Gasset's ideas, which the author found in his work The Dehumanization of Art. This essay notably discusses the influence of Erwin Panofsky on the style of motion pictures, and it takes as its particular target earlier essays by Barthes and Frye.  This essay expounds the belief that (*) art functions as an object in itself, rather than as a container for other objects,  and that the process of knowing is more important than a message. This essay titles a collection which includes the a more controversial essay which discusses the tendency to reject the natural and embrace the unnatural, "Notes on Camp." For ten points, identify this essay which attempts to decrease the sensitivity to art and its ability to make its viewers nervous by decreasing the cognitive process associated with it, a work by Susan Sontag.
Steve Light responded to this essay in his work "The Noise of Decomposition," while Cary Nelson wrote several responses to it, including "Soliciting Self-Knowledge."
"{Against Interpetation}"