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Mapping Approaches to Interpretation
- The Journal of Aesthetic Education
- University of Illinois Press
- Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 2022
- pp. 28-43
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Abstract:
There are a variety of different approaches to understanding how to interpret a work of art. And there are a plurality of ways of understanding how those various approaches relate to, and differ from, one another. In this essay, I offer (1) an exploration of some of the similarities that popular contemporary approaches share and, (2) based on differences among interpretative approaches, three different ways of mapping those approaches.