In a similar vein to the question of separating art from the artist, I think it’s also worth discussing how one approaches appreciating art despite its often industrial and commercial origins.

Edited for clarity: commercial is sort of redundant, and may have given an impression of there being issue taken with any sort of money made from art, which wasn’t the intent. Focus was intended more on industrial, i.e. bigger business, art output.

  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeOP
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    6 months ago

    Context is an important tool when determining authorial intent, but one can investigate a piece under the frame of the death of the author too should they want to understand more what they personally gain from a work or what someone else entirely gets out of it.

    Am I understanding correctly that you’re suggesting an extension of death of the author to death of the industry to discern what one draws from art?