The first time I saw her photo & name was a year ago at Annie Leibovitz's exhibition. From there I knew her as a writer who has long term romantic relationship with Annie. About month ago I saw her name again from this forum. Susan's essays collection "Against Interpretation" was recommended by Miss WoBu. It triggered me to borrow the book before a vacation. When I read the book, my husband teased me "Since when you are interested in lesbian writer".
So far I read couple of the essays in the book. I have to say I agree with Susan's view regarding art: The form / style of art is as important as the content of art. An art work in a impersonal eyes will reveal more dynamic meaning and stirring people's mind. When people use moral value to judge an art work, it missed half of the value. When I grow up in China, teach always ask us to write reading summary with conclusion: this story tells us "so and so" moral value. Look deeply into the thinking process when I was young, I have to say those kind of framed training limited my imagination & creativity.
When I read Susan's essays, a name jumped into my mind -- Krzysztof Kieslowski. He is one of my favorite movie director. His most famous movie series is "Three Colors: red, white blue" . I like the most is called "Decalogue". In his movie, rational and irrational, right and wrong all intertwined. He gave audience more space to contemplate. To me, that's the high end art.
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到目前为止，我看过她的两本散文。我必须说我同意与苏珊的观点，关于艺术形式/艺术风格是一样重要内容的艺术作品。一种艺术在客观的眼睛中，将揭示更多地动态的含义和搅拌人们的头脑。当人们用道德的价值判断一种艺术工作，错过了一半的价值。当我在中国，教授总是要求我们写阅读摘要与结论：这个故事告诉我们， "等等.."的道德价值。深入探讨我年轻的时候思想的过程，我必须说，那种培训有限我的想象力与创造力。
当我看到苏珊的散文，一个名字跳进我的心-斯坦尼斯基耶斯洛夫斯基。他是我最喜欢的电影导演。他最著名的电影系列"三种颜色：红，白，蓝" 。我最喜欢是"十诫" 。在他的电影的，理性的和非理性的，正确和错误都交织在一起。他给观众更多的空间来沉思。对我而言，这的高端艺术品。
