February 24, 2010
context kills
A study on the effect of context on art.
“Providing contextual information led to participants perceiving examples of the various styles of art as matching less well with their internal standards than when no contextual information was presented,” Bordens writes. In other words, they were more likely to feel a piece conformed to their personal ideas about art — and thus more likely to enjoy or appreciate it — when it was presented without interpretation.
(via marginal revolution)
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our culture sure does love to murder authors, doesn’t it?
bring out your dead.
yes, so true. but we are already dead because we knew this.