{"id":2123,"date":"2012-12-07T21:35:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2012-12-07T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T22:10:58","slug":"an-oasis-of-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"A little oasis of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/06\/praising-andy-warhol\/?hp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2124\" title=\"brillo boxes\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/brillo-boxes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/brillo-boxes.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/brillo-boxes-234x300.jpeg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brief piece of writing like <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/06\/praising-andy-warhol\/?hp\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> feels like a blessing. You could unpack an eccentric little Nicholson Baker-sized diatribe about art by extrapolating on the insights from this little column in the <em>New York Times<\/em>. At the very least, I&#8217;m going to work on a long post this weekend, based my reactions to it. Here&#8217;s a sample:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">It is a mistake to credit to an artwork meanings that primarily arise from our interpretative efforts.\u00a0 There is a fundamental difference between discovering meaning in an object and imposing meaning on it.\u00a0 <em>A great work of art embeds categories of understanding and appreciation that we uncover in experiencing the work.\u00a0<\/em> It is quite another thing to use an object as a framework for displaying categories that we bring to it.\u00a0 The difference is between discovering a mine that contains gold and constructing glittering objects from dross. &#8212; Gary Gutting<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief piece of writing like this feels like a blessing. You could unpack an eccentric little Nicholson Baker-sized diatribe about art by extrapolating on the insights from this little column in the New York Times. 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