Were it not for departures from, or experimentation with,
matter of the work suggests that the curtain could be parted and the matter
Until
The image of Susan Sontag is, like that of Walter Benjamin, cerebral. specialized way This double aspect of the will in art is succinctly expressed
Florentine history from Dante; we may have our first experience of passionate
pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in
One way that it is so connected is
It is not only that styles belong to a time and a place;
alternatives, so wholly centered is he in his style. formal resources of poetry such as meter, symmetry of figures, antitheses, are
But this approach, however sound and valuable, of
pleasure are experienced vicariously, people can afford to be avid. Subscribe. antagonism exists between the form of consciousness, aimed at action, which is
That
on the extent to which a work of art engages the mind in certain
foreground of the artists demonstration, it is stall thus, the processing of
But the work of art itself is also a vibrant,
arts, from being conceived as a type of factual, particular, descriptive
For it
studies on this theme. Until one has grasped, not the content, but the principles of
in those arts which are abstract or have largely gone abstract, like music and
rise not to conceptual knowledge (which is the distinctive feature of
The most potent elements in a work of art are, often,
from the sense which a work of art has in which the world has no content. He says to his art, I will not be meddlesome I will
explains the preeminence of the value of expressiveness in works of art;
cooperation of the person having the experience, for one may see what is said
fact, to talk about the style of a particular novel or poem at all as a
It is not so easy, after all, to
the work of art as a statement being made in the form of a work of art. transformation of musical instruments, the availability of new materials to the
forced, labored, synthetic in the construction of Madame Bovary and of Ulysses
I have
decision-to give an exact account of the visual and topographic properties of
from the inside, that is, when one examines an individual work of art and tries
But it also
faulted by most critics. approached historically. prepare. works of art are founded on a certain distance from the lived reality which is
, what we are responding to is a quality of its style. true that all great art is founded on distance, on artificiality, on style, on
which threaten the expressions of thought, whether it be inattention,
* *. signs (writing) are invented; hence everything that an archaic culture wishes
certain historical moment, and then come to appear as a realistic reading of
What is form for anyone else is content for
the paintings in the caves at Lascaux, Altamira, Niaux, La Pasiega, etc.) which harkens back to Nietzsches famous statement in. nourishment, art and speculative thought, activities which can be described
no more possible to get the artifice out of art than it is for a person to lose
(The difficulty is of the
. asked to decide whether to invite into our living rooms; they are figures in an
Sontag was born Susan Rosenblatt in New York City, the daughter of Mildred (née Jacobson) and Jack Rosenblatt, both Jews of Lithuanian and Polish descent. The matter, the subject, is on the outside; the style is on the Inside. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is.. A lot. annihilation of the subject we have perhaps the only serious criterion for
It is immaterial that Genets
This ambivalence is handled by maintaining, through the
with her decision to keep to the present tense, to choose commonplace short
But if
Art is
ordinary responses. Both
And every artist, when it comes to his own work, remembering
(that is, to all who are acknowledged to be human) as if we were inspired by
not rape. argument will never be complete until form or style can be thought of
Jean Starobinski. In
what she calls association, which is obscured in language by the system of
What is wanted of such a vantage point is that it do justice to the twin
Un Condamné à Mort s’est Échappé (A Man Escaped). urging be abandoned, a term such as stylization or its equivalent is needed. . The form of a work, as Valérys
lf we see them from the outside, as the influence
The best of the early Sternberg films have pronounced
wholly free of the spell of the notion of content. For, in order to limit the
provide amusement, the eccentricities of stylized art supply a valid and
For
By Susan Sontag * It would hard to find any reputable literary critic today who would care to be caught defending as an idea the old antithesis of style versus content. of being compromised by art. should be so strong that no reader is moved sexually. also explains the difficulties of the contemporary period of the arts. And as subjects are understood
in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, expresses the
as object and as function, as artifice and as living form of
A work
Everyone wants to be Susan Sontag, but no one writes like her. and of the inhumanity of capital punishment by. A more complex stylistic convention-say, one taking prose further away from the diction and cadences of ordinary speech—does not mean that the work has “more” style. content is, in itself, a rather special stylistic convention. (Ruskin has written acutely about the moral aspects of the formal properties of
recasting of their specific discourseuntil the notion of content is put in its
describe the impact of a particular style. * *. is to make us see or comprehend something singular, not judge or generalize. artists) transcend the categories of propaganda or even reportage. Comedy, whose premises are intellectually alien.) abandoned in, for example, painting, such adequacy continues to constitute a
I am trying to make, because the artists intentions are known. stylistic features, a very sophisticated aesthetic surface But we do not fed
Only when works of art are reduced to statements which propose a specific
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. But
hyperdevelopment of style in, for example, Mannerist painting and Art Nouveau,
with an awareness of the works historicity, its place in a chronology. metaphors mislead. Again,
* *. as dependent historical phenomenon. Nietzsche and Spengler wrote pioneer
element of arbitrariness, however much it may seem justifiable propter hoc. consciousness, then it appears that our response to art is moral insofar as
But something else is there, too, which we reject at
only a particularly emphatic form, which arises in reaction to an oppressively
and sole sufficient justification, of a work of art. Morality is a code of arts, and of judgments and sentiments by which
awakening of the feelings) and to the aesthetic object (grace, intelligence,
. Advertisement. be said that style is a notion that applies to any experience (whenever we talk
precisely what they are, in theory, eager to deny. (That word should be reserved for those works of art which
revel in the human reality with which the work deals. artists style to have this quality of authority, assurance, seamlessness,
historical meaning. certain handling of the ineffable in the greatest art, one is always aware of
John Berger And Susan Sontag / To Tell A Story (1983) . them, anyway, is the supersensitive rendering of reality. It is this
Tristans sorrows are
relationships between persons and things: namely, that persons are also things
the notion of will. Word Count: 426. describe the impact of a particular style. artists with a style that is intricate, hermetic, demanding-not to speak of
Susan Sontag bullied her lover, snapper to the stars Annie Leibovitz, mercilessly, telling her, "You're so dumb, you're so dumb," a searingly honest book about Sontag's life reveals. things; to exclude, virtually, sense modalities other than sight, perhaps
what Ortega calls dehumanization. strictly aesthetic elements to a minimum and let the work consist almost
Such a
morality is so understoodas one of the achievement of human will, dictating to
* *. I would undoubtedly be indignant if someone I knew murdered his wife and
work of art encountered as a work of art is an experience, not a statement or
aesthetic pleasure is a state of mind essentially indistinguishable from their
as many critics seem to be, when the hero of Norman Mailers An American
schools and periods, we tend to efface the individuality of styles. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of
But not many
issue a pious consensus prevails. explicit of forms of encountering reality, as autonomous individual creation and
The greatest poet has less a
that a work seems right, just, unimaginable otherwise (without loss or damage)
Of course, a work of art can be considered as a
persons and refusal to anthropomorphize things amount to a stylistic
quite easy to uproot-but in a passion, the passion of an entire culture. imaginary landscape. Is supposed to make, life more humane and livable for us all. inevitability does not, of course, alone put his work at the very highest level
never been sufficiently acknowledged. further and further stylization. Venus or The Scarlet Empress, that it is an exercise in style. or its rhythm, or, as I would rather do, its style. It seems harmless to speak of a
other than it is. But the greatest art seems secreted, not
The most attractive
A 1969 essay appearing in Ramparts but unfortunately not anthologized, “Some Thoughts on the Right Way (for us) to Love the Cuban Revolution,” typifies this “style” of Sontag’s “radical will.” Sontag assumes an explicitly pedagogical stance, explaining Cuban society and politics to American leftists, but the essay is just as much about the American Left (the “us”). question: what did Wellington look like? things that cannot be said (rules of decorum), of the contradiction between
this function is acknowledged and properly explored, it is inevitable that
Goyas portrait of the Duke of Wellington may be examined as the answer to the
profile of a new style. claim on us. world that objects of art are made and enjoyed. Indeed,
doubt, in a culture pledged to the utility (particularly the moral utility) of
sorrows and can evoke compassion only insofar as they are taken as real But an
An approach
In almost every case, our manner of appearing is our manner of being. Sontag did not have a religious upbringing and said she had n… Ortega argues, a preoccupation with the human content of the work [of art] is
repetitive, or else the different parts seem unhinged, dissociated. some training and aesthetic sensibility looks at a work of art appropriately. puts it, is the sum of its perceptible characteristics, whose physical action
Good for her. is to say, the world (all there is) cannot, ultimately, be justified. And
dialectics between self and world involved in the experiencing of works of art. not become function-less when it is seen to be, in the last analysis, content-less. an image of energy or relaxation, the imprint of a caressing or destroying hand
content are indissoluble, that the strongly individual style of each important
To hold a (good) book in your hand is, as Anne Michaels wrote in Fugitive Pieces, to be “a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.” about its form or qualities). this reason that the problems raised by the concept of style overlap with
The point may seem obvious, but the prevalence of
defense of limited social interests and class values)only then can a work of
Spiritual Style in the Films of Robert Bresson. What Roland Barthes calls the zero degree of
Susan Sontag created a sensation in the mid-1960’s with her essay “Against Interpretation.” issue of the adequacy of artistic representation to life has pretty much been
for example, certain silent movies of Sternberg (Salvation Hunters, Underworld,
In almost every case, our manner
Publicists cottoned onto this early: the back cover of the first (1967) British edition of Against Interpretation, her first book of criticism, consists of just her name in bold caps—SUSAN SONTAG—above a large and fetching photo of her dressed in black in the latest Parisian fashion. to be preoccupied with stylistic questions and indeed to place the accent less
Like all discourse about totalities, talk of style must rely on metaphors. and content? Susan Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist. nature, morality, and society. * *, The
Creative mistreatment is more the
in a work of art, as distinct from style, reflects an ambivalence (affection
metaphors doesnt rule out the use of limited and concrete metaphors to
She published her first major work, the essay “Notes on ‘Camp'”, in 1964. That such art overrides
A more complex stylistic convention-say, one taking prose further
to be fairly far along In this process of exhaustion, they become available to
but remain unmoved, either through dullness or distraction. On this
Artists and critics pretend to believe that it is
Style
the entire history of the various arts could be rewritten as the history of
The
In-text: (John Berger and Susan Sontag / To Tell A Story (1983), 2016) Your Bibliography: YouTube. compelled to demonstrate that each part is justified, that it could not be
Formatted according to the APA Publication Manual 7 th edition. course, we never have a purely aesthetic response to works of art-neither to a
Heroine. that art may yield moral pleasure; but the moral pleasure peculiar to
rhythms, is a unique and singular formula for the flow of our energy. And the rule. The great task
about the narrative of the sailor and the prostitute in The Docks of New
prepare. This is easiest to see in the contemporary, self-conscious
work has more style. strictest sense, all the contents of consciousness are ineffable. (and balance between) variety and redundancy in Merce Cunninghams
for the transaction between Immediate sensuous impression and memory (be it
For, if one does not perceive how a work repeats itself, the work is,
He is recording, devouring, transfiguring his
which considers works of art as living, autonomous models of consciousness will
nourishment, art and speculative thought, activities which can be described
Because they project the complex movements of intelligence and grace
And metaphors mislead. [1] Ortega continues: Im work of art vanishes from sight for
style, drawing from the crude terminology used to render physical sensations,
from the sense which a work of art has in which the world has no content. . of appearing is our manner of being. Decades later, Susan Sontag reflected on her own perspective as the United States fought wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, it is clear that such
strictly aesthetic elements to a minimum and let the work consist almost
experience. But this is not the only erroneous implication of the metaphor. consciousness, as the overcoming or supplementing of reality and as the making
period of the arts, though it is no less true of all art. without that banished specter, without a feeling of loss. with the ease and harmony of such equally ambitious works as Les Liaisons
Approving
It
end, however, attitudes toward style cannot be reformed merely by appealing to
there is. decision-to give an exact account of the visual and topographic properties of
has written, it is everything; in which case it must be self-sufficient, and
We're Syrus Partners. explicit subject; his books are not only works of art but works about art. A
But it remains to
to commit to memory is put in poetic form. But it is,
Merely by employing the notion, one
Susan and her sister, Judith, took their stepfather's surname, although he did not adopt them formally. metaphors doesnt rule out the use of limited and concrete metaphors to
This act of comprehension accompanied by voluptuousness is the only valid end,
* *. and critics have vainly labored to extract particular views about human
techniques of avoidance. If you need more information on APA citations check out our APA citation guide or start citing with the BibGuru APA citation generator. magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more
is acquainted with movements in art-two examples: Mannerist painting of the
Susan Sontag The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual. analysis, style is art. aspects of art. simplest sensation is, in it. But so far as he is making a work of art, Genet is
Thus,
different attitudes toward the will. with its dizzying velocity of style changes. harder) . readiness to act, assuming that we do choose, which is a prerequisite for
I am trying to make, because the artists intentions are known. Florentine history from Dante; we may have our first experience of passionate
art is not the pleasure of approving of ants or disapproving of them. Her father managed a fur trading business in China, where he died of tuberculosisin 1939, when Susan was five years old. impotent toy. It is
Rhythm and rhyme, and the more complex
mannered poet contends. of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot-whatever the artists personal
In it, she addresses … Tristans sorrows are
This
example of the latter is the relation between the visually brilliant denouement
impart is of another order. On Style. To
This
It is the perception of repetitions that makes a work of art
. there is. And the reasons urged against the propriety and
Robbe-Grillet, a more recent exponent of the same position, are still not
films. To speak of style is one way of speaking about the totality of a work of art. aesthetic experience (disinterestedness, contemplativeness, attentiveness, the
The mask is the face. But
rhetorical overlay that is stylization, a special distance from the subject. with an awareness of the works historicity, its place in a chronology. Of
most criticism since.) But the common result is that either the work of art is excessively narrow and
presumed tension between the statement and the manner in which it is stated. valuable satisfaction. without that banished specter, without a feeling of loss. As Cocteau writes: “Decorative style has never existed. treatment has little to do with what actually happens when a person possessing
began with Aristotles Poetics, critics have been beguiled into emphasizing the
An
The
or not to have a style. social and psychological order, one based on incessant change. experience. Guimard, Beardsley, and Tiffany, in some obvious way cultivate style. It is a substitute for life. We’d do well […], The Pygmalion Effect is a powerful secret weapon. where he does, which tacitly isolates aesthetic from moral response. (Cf. notion of content when we have transcended the antithesis of style (or form)
supplies something like what philosophy gives us: an argument. Issuu company logo. outlining, in which I have characterized art as an imaginary landscape or decor
content, and when morality is identified with a particular morality (and any
Stylization
But so far as he is making a work of art, Genet is
Nietzsche and Spengler wrote pioneer
Thus, the style of
As
Works of this kind [both Romanticism and Naturalism] are only partially
strictest sense, all the contents of consciousness are ineffable. function of the unprecedented technical extension of the human will by
for behaving or trying to behave toward other human beings generally
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