Re: cogito air go some

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 20:08:12 +1100

Matt Kozusko wrote:
> I think Jim's point was simply that a person should understand the ideas
> or opinions he is responding to before he undertakes to critique them. 
> For instance, a person taking a course in Derrida should understand
> whatever part of Derrida is being studied before responding to it.  

But that's the point. Ostensibly, the course *wasn't* about Derrida. It was
supposed to be about Dadaism and Surrealism and a lot of other art
movements I was interested in for the paintings themselves, not what was
said about them. Naturally criticism is an integral part of art study, but
it shouldn't be 100%. And I reiterate my position that you don't need to
have read up on the criticism to interpret and appreciate a work of art -
be it a book or a painting or whatever.