Saturday, January 30, 2021

ପ୍ରତିନିଧିତ୍ୱ

I was watching this interview of Siri Hustvedt: Siri Hustvedt Interview: Art is a Memory

the part of the interview that I find very interesting, and that I've watched more than once, is where she compares art to writing, or the image to the word, and she says that, unlike an image where you can grasp the details all at once, in writing, the details unfold in a series or a process. 

she makes a point of saying that text is a different thing from visual art, as if it's a common view that it isn't, and that you can't represent the same thing in them. you can write about visual art, but you can't achieve any kind of equivalence. I've thought about this before with music....would it be possible to represent the actual sound and experience of listening to music? // not just to write about your thoughts and feelings regarding the music, but to acually convey the music itself somehow through words. of course it's impossible, but it's an appealing idea. 

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