Art as a Cultural System
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"Art as a Cultural System" (1976) is a text by Clifford Geertz.
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Incipit
- "Art is notoriously hard to talk about. It seems, even when made of words in the literary arts, all the more so when made of pigment, sound, stone or whatever in the non-literary ones, to exist in a world of its own, beyond the reach of discourse. It not only is hard to talk about it; it seems unnecessary to do so. It speaks, as we say, for itself: a poem must not mean but be; if you have to ask what jazz is you are never going to get to know."
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See also
- Psychology of art
- Aesthetic interpretation
- The Origin of the Work of Art
- Michael Baxandall
- Modern Language Notes
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