People Who Don’t Like Looking At Art Like Reading About It Less
A recent study shows that providing contextual information alongside artworks makes people who already don’t care about art like it even less.Â
For the study, Purdue U psychologists threw together some art-ambivilant undergrads, gave them the gist of what art is and a varying degree of background info, then let ‘em loose on some works to rate against their “internal prototype”/personal definition of art.Â
Apparently, “context is counterproductive.” Instead of helping to “extract meaning,” more info sends brows a-furrowing.
With the definition of Dadaism, suddenly those Duchamps just weren’t good enough. This either means people really hate to read or that a little borrowed lore can turn a frat boy into a bitchy art critic, presto chango. |Miller-McCune|
Editor-in-Chief:
If it needs an explanation, the art either sux, or it's being presented out of context which sux 2.
I'll second that!
Or maybe the people having a look at it are counterproductive cause their visual expectations are way off.
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