Camp Willow
„Interpretation is a radical strategy for conserving an old text, which is thought too precious to repudiate, by revamping it.“ „The modern style of interpretation excavates and as it excavates, destroys; it digs 'behind' the text, to find a sub-text which is the true one.“ „To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.'“ „By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art.“ „What the overemphasis on the idea of content entails is the perennial, never consummated project of interpretation. And, conversely, it is the habit of approaching works of art in order to interpret them that sustains the fancy that there really is such a thing as the content of a work of art.“ „Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, comformable.“ „From now t...