Re:Homestuck in review
by vanderZwan on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:04AM
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Congratulations, internet, you have reached Stage 4 of Michael Parson's model of aesthetic appreciation! :D
> “[An awareness of the social context of a painting reflects] the realisation that the interpretation of a painting is a social creation and can exist only in a community of viewers, just as words can have meaning only in a linguistic community. [...] The meaning of a work, therefore, is no longer equivalent to what an individual experiences, but to what can be said about it in a discursive way by a number of people. [...] It is a public meaning, part of a complex historical web of meanings that constitutes an art tradition.”
> “[An awareness of the social context of a painting reflects] the realisation that the interpretation of a painting is a social creation and can exist only in a community of viewers, just as words can have meaning only in a linguistic community. [...] The meaning of a work, therefore, is no longer equivalent to what an individual experiences, but to what can be said about it in a discursive way by a number of people. [...] It is a public meaning, part of a complex historical web of meanings that constitutes an art tradition.”
Source: Talk about a Painting: A Cognitive Developmental Analysis, Michael J. Parsons, 1987 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3332812