Art encounter
Do you think "art encounter" in the following text mean "the encounter of viewers with a work of art"?
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However, the gist of my argument will be that the artist, rather than taking him- or herself as an object to be destroyed, finds a surrogate ‘object’ to channel the potentially dangerous defusion of the instincts involved in primary masochism so that the fragmentation they incur is experienced at a distance, although, paradoxically, an
extremely intimate one. The ethics involved here is that the excess of destructiveness that seems to be inherent in human sexuality is dissipated via an internal relation to a surrogate self rather than projected outwards and inflicted on an external object in the exercise of ‘mastery or the will to power’. The formalisation of destruction in the art encounter allows us to repeat the painful pleasures of what theorist Leo Bersani calls an ‘ecstatically shattered ego’, which is a repetition of the originary ‘threat of stability and integrity of the self that human sexuality is’.
Top answer
Well, if the writer is just going to invent terms without defining them, I give up. Groping in the dark, it seems that she is talking about the artist, not the viewer, and that the "art encounter" is anything she wants it to be later when she mentions it again. OK, that's unhelpful.
- Well, if the writer is just going to invent terms without defining them, I give up.
- Groping in the dark, it seems that she is talking about the artist, not the viewer, and that the "art encounter" is anything she wants it to be later when she mentions it again.
- OK, that's unhelpful.
- I guess the art encounter is the artist's experience as he enters upon the creation of his art.
- The artist comes face to face with his art, he encounters it.
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Well, if the writer is just going to invent terms without defining them, I give up. Groping in the dark, it seems that she is talking about the artist, not the viewer, and that the "art encounter" is anything she wants it to be later when she mentions it again. OK, that's unhelpful. I guess the art encounter is the artist's experience as he enters upon the creation of his art. The artist comes
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