Susan Sontag Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• [T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Issues, Political

• AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.

  Susan Sontag

  Taken, Population, Awareness

• Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

  Susan Sontag

  Emotional, Giving, Understanding

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.100, Macmillan

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