My notes on "Poetics of the Open work"

Art was always intended to communicate with its viewer?? This awerness of the ‘open’ relathionship with the viewer wasn’t perceived in a positive light. And the artists intention was to ‘close’ his piece. Authors wanted to have more control of their art? So the concept of providing the correct angle or way to view the piece was introduced. (though in modern days, as mentioned above, by me, is trying to be shifted in an opposite direction? As in allowing the work to communicate instead of the artist providing ways for it to be viewed, or to put it roughly, for it to communicate with its own audience???)

Communication between an open work and the viewer itself is unavoidable????? Relationship between the artist, the formed art (sculpture, poetry, music, you name it) and the third party, the viewer. (INTERPRETATION IS KEY)

Emotional triggers can give the same piece of artwork different meanings, and make it come alive and bring in into another light entirely.

‘The reader of the text knows that every sentence and every trope is ‘open’ to a multiplicity of meanings which he must hunt for and find. Indeed, according to how he feels at one particular moment, the reader might choose a possible interpretative key which strikes him as exemplary of this spiritual state. He will use the work according to the desired meaning (causing it to come alive again, somehow different from the way he viewed it at an earlier reading). However, in this type of operation, ‘openness’ is far removed from meaning ‘indefiniteness’ of communication, ‘infinite’ possibilities of form, and complete freedom of reception. What in fact is made available is a range of rigidly pre-established and ordained interpretive solutions, and these never allow the reader to move outside the strict control of the author.’

1.       Literal

2.       Allegory

3.       Moral sense

4.       Anagogical

The important thing is to forbid a single sense to inhabit a poem or any other work of art, every detail, contributes to a piece having more then a singular meaning and even so, infinite possibilities.

Suggestiveness is a deliberate method to open up the work for various possible responses from the addressee.

Metamorphosis Kafka. Good example. Communication with the reader. No provided guidelines. No moral compass provided by the author only the one that leads the reader. Letting him come up with his own conclusions   of the situation. #

‘There is no real explanation for a text’. Tindall.

Every piece of art can be viewed differently depending on the current emotion of the viewer. Although their past experiences influence “the message”. Art is a very lucid form viewed by everyone differently, but the artist puts his piece in frames limiting the ‘”openness” of their work to some extent. Nevertheless the art itself remains infinite in a way the only possible completion for it is when every single human being (in this scenario) has viewed it and or possibly experienced the piece.