Join us every month in the Clocktower Café for a relaxed, friendly discussion on an art-related book as part of our Croydon Art Collection: Matching Masterpieces Exhibition.

For our next session, we will be reading Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation and other Essays. We will be focussing mainly on her essay, Against Interpretation, but you are welcome to read the other essays too if you are able. You can find a free PDF of the essay to read here.

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About the book:

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes some of Sontag's best-known works, among them 'On Style', 'Notes on 'Camp'', and the titular essay 'Against Interpretation', where Sontag argues that modern cultural conditions have given way to a new critical approach to aesthetics.