Susan Sontag by Giuseppe Caschera

I was very enlightened after reading Susan Sontags explanation on interpreting art. It is clear that sontags does not approve of breaking down pieces of art into components and trying to examine its meaning by breaking it apart, She describes this has being stifling just like fumes from an automobile. She describes this method of interpreting art as impoverishing or to deplete the world in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.” I believe what Sontag is trying to say is that what we interpret a piece of art to be is not the true mealing, in fact art is not intended to be interpreted. Art is intened to portray the relaity in which the artists see the world and nothing more. She claims that in order for art to avoid interpretation, art may become parody. Or it may become abstract. Or it may become (“merely”) decorative. Or it may become non-art. Over all she is opposed to interpreting art.