Reexamine Interpretation, Awaken Sense-perception—From Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation

Abstract

“Content theory” occupies the meaning of artistic works like one hand covers the sky, occupying the stage of the emergence of sensibility, resulting in the absence of sensibility in the appreciation of artistic works. However, the work of art itself is an aesthetic structure with a sense of summoning power. Art is born by “touch” and exists by “feeling”. It arises from very different sense organ, and also calls upon the connoisseur to respond with sensory experiences. To feel the charm of art works in “elsewhere” apart from content, we can have options such as “appreciating the form” and “hearing the sound”. Only by discarding the ideological shackles of the supremacy of content can we get a different taste of aesthetic experience.