Motivated Description

Michael Fried, the art historian and critic, describes his work as "motivated description." The term comes from Svetlana Alpers.

"You're just saying what you see....I'm trying to describe and account for what is actually there."

[from Earnest: What It Means to Write About Art, 2018]

I find this makes sense of what I am doing more generally, as described in the previous posts. By the way, such "subjectivity" is not at all arbitrary, for the world is you fiduciary--as Kant would have it, judgment is a claim that you should agree with me, or at least appreciate how I am judging.

MK

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