It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”–capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University, demonstrates in painful if inadvertently hilarious detail that this does not mean that works of art are immune from - that they are not in fact often subject to–wild and perverse misinterpretation. Roger Kimball
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In his book, The Inexhaustible Muse: The Life and Work of Charlotte C. Weber, Lubin tries to show that a single work of art cannot be interpreted in a straightforward way. Although a work of art can be seen in a straightforward way, it can also be seen in many other ways.

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