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3 Nov 2021 Conversations with Tyler David Salle on the Experience of Art
“When we write about literature or sociology or something other than music, the medium with which we use to describe it is somehow aligned with the experience of it in the first place.”
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- David Salle
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- evaluation
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- 3 Nov 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…It’s easier than your job, is it not? — I’m sure it’s quite difficult. To do it well, it’s difficult. There’s the obvious problem in writing about art. Art is visual; language is language. When we write about literature or sociology or something other than music, the medium with which we use to describe it is somehow aligned with the experience of it in the first place. With painting or sculpture — when I say painting, I mean visual arts generally — there is always an approximation or translation that is challenging. To do it well is challenging. What has gone wrong with art criticism today? What is your structural model for how and why that happened?…
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