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The Origin of Stories: Horton Hears a Who

2001; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/phl.2001.0022

1086-329X

Brian Boyd,

Visual Culture and Art Theory

Works of art die without attention, and we should expect that any critical theory that cannot explain why we attend to art ought itself to be moribund. Yet the currently dominant approach to criticism, which I will dub Cultural Critique, 1 explains art in terms of the limited and suspect perspectives of the culture (society, group, era) that produced it, or as the site of contestation or locus of imbrication of the ideological discourses of its time. Why anyone would want to attend to art, defined thus, becomes a mystery, unless audiences always do indeed crave ideological nourishment or indigestion. Surely we can do better.