ISM: Kandinsky's dub teachings

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First some wise words coming from Susan Sontag, taken from her book Against interpretation (1966).

"Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of "meanings." It is to turn the world into this world. ("This world!" As if there were any other.)

The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have."

Ok, as you may have guessed i'm not into art interpretation. When i write about 'Kandinsky's dub teachings' it's about an imaginary clash between abstract painting and dub music, looking mostly at Kandinsky's theories and techniques. Not the deeper meaning of certain paintings and so on.

It's impossible to define exactly what 'abstract painting' is so let's just say that a purely abstract painting does not have a landscape or a portrait on it. It's about something a bit more.. abstract. In itself abstraction is not a ...

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