In the moment that left in the past previous theories, it expands, opens your mind to new ones, with the possibility that in the future they can take shortcuts at the level of knowledge through art.

So also is like a bit subversive my critical review, where I try key phrases within the text of Sontag, in my personal opinion was far ahead of its future.

The form and content of Sontag, start your text with the first experiences of art as ritual instruments, passes mimesis and representation of Plato, then a form of therapy for Aristotle and quickly concludes: “And it is the defense of art which gives birth to the odd vision by which something we have learned to call “form” is separated off from something we have learned to call “content,” and to the well-intentioned move which makes content essential and form accessory. Even in modern times, when most artists and critics” (1966). It's been about 40 years since the publication of this essay, it is one of the most controversial in American critical literature. Then assume very complex natural effects (science) as test argument within the realm of the subjective, camouflaged and not representative of reality, like art. “The content may have changed. It may now be less figurative, less lucidly realistic. But it is still assumed that a work of art is its content. Or, as it’s usually put today, that a work of art by definition says something” Sontag (1966).

Later enters the field of interpretation, where really focuses his essay, citing the words of Nietzsche: “There are no facts, only interpretations.”, sees the interpretation and conscious act of the mind. In part 5 of his essay mentions the philistinism of interpretation, whether they are like forms, today we can say that it is on-the paradigm of interpretation-, “It is, indeed, the modern way of understanding something…”, referring to Kafka,  “…Interpretation makes art manageable, Comformable” Sontag (1966). Contrary to Platón and mimesis that has no use.

 

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories” Sontag (1966). This intervention is closing his essay Sontag, after analyzing the effects of interpretation in society both the work and its authors, performers and directors, as Tennessee Williams With Streetcar, Cocteau The Blood of a Poet, finding in them interpretations Freudian symbolism and social criticism, works valued not for their "decadent Western civilization" meaning, but certain problems in its cinematic form.

In the next part it refers to "Western civilization", particularly in the US where poetry is influenced by the so-called movement of symbolism, arises from the interpretive experience of French poetry, including painting and music, that takes to restore the magic of the word aside the interpretation, “to put silence into poems and to reinstate the magic of the word, has escaped from the rough grip of interpretation”. But rightly blasts against novels and plays, which according to his thought, are actually made by journalists, sociologists and psychologists who pose as novelists and playwrights, “They are writing the literary equivalent of program music. And so rudimentary, uninspired, and stagnant has been the sense of what might be done with form in fiction and drama that even when the content isn’t simply information, news, it is still peculiarly visible, handier, more exposed. To the extent that novels and plays (in America), unlike poetry and painting and music, don’t reflect any interesting concern with changes in their form, these arts remain prone to assault by interpretation”. Sontag (1966).

 

In each paragraph of his written Sontag he achieved we want to criticize, analyze, reconstruct ideas. On a personal level it is a bit disconcerting and distressing conclusion that we are an immature species, where over time we do is repeat again and again patterns stagnate our evolution, but physically it is impossible to be born and to all the information required for each action in every situation of life, we are born with certain instincts, yes, but not with a sofward with all the tools and guidelines for living. Then we must assume that immaturity and write, continue writing and motivating to read, to take over the knowledge from an early age without arrogance. Despite the title, it really seems that Sontag went against the interpretation, all the time only makes the brain, processes, and related neural networks are connected and behold, what we interpret without exaggeration in content.

 

 “What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more”.

And  I add: ... and among smaller is better.