On Nov 7, 2008, at 9:51 AM, William Conger wrote:
Miller's definition of appreciation is to regard it as an extended
wall label or program text. That guts the word of its
subjectivity. To appreciate something seems to require some direct
emotional engagement with it. You can't receive a visitor until you
open the door. Aprreciation is access, opening the door; the bigger
the door, the wider it opens and the more directly you greet your
visitor, the artwork.
Very good point. Shorter and terser than my own reply.
Btw, that "appreciation is opening a door" thing is an analogy, right?
Or maybe a metaphor? <g>
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