How is experiencing a work of art not like reading?
I’m beginning to think that this question is more interesting than the question that I posed back in July, “How is experiencing a work of art like reading?” (A question that I can’t claim to have come up with on my own, as it is a guiding question behind Words & Pictures.) This question asks us to consider the objectness of a work of art. As Olga Hubard remarks in “Complete Engagement: Embodied Response in Art Museum Education” (2007), “Unlike the contents of written texts, artworks present themselves as physical (or virtual) entities that exist in the same space as we do....