social quote
"Foucault demonstrated that over the centuries the relationship between the author and the text has changed. The earliest sacred texts are authorless, their origins lost in history. In fact, the ancient, anonymous origin of such texts serves as a kind of authentication. On the other hand, scientific texts, at least until after the Renaissance, demanded an author’s name as validation. By the eighteenth century, however, Foucault asserts, the situation had reversed: literature was authored and science had become the product of anonymous objectivity. Once authors began to be punished for their writing – that is, when a text could be transgressive – the link between the author and the text was firmly established. Text became a kind of private property, owned by the author, and a critical theory developed which reinforced that relationship, searching for keys to the text in the life and intention of its writer. With the rise of scientific method, on the other hand, scientific texts and mathematical proofs were no longer seen as authored texts but as discovered truths. The scientist revealed an extant phenomenon, a fact anyone faced with the same conditions would have uncovered. Therefore the scientist and mathematician could be the first to discover a paradigm, and lend their name to it, but could never claim authorship over it."
http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/the-designer-as-author
Spring 1996
Michael Rock
1- "writing is the destruction of every voice"
2- "the voice loses its origin, the author enters his own death"
2- "the explanation of a work is allways sought in the man or woman who produced it"
3- "for him, for us too, it is language which speaks, not to the author"
6- "did he wish to express himself, he ought at least to know that the inner 'thing' he thinks to 'translate' is itself only a ready-formed dictionary"
7- "when the author has been found, the text is 'explained'"
8- "classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature"
8- "the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author"
The interaction between what is seen and how it is perceived, this can create subsequent differences when writing. This can be related to many fields that require a visual interact menu with the subject matter or piece of work. Illustration is one of the most heavily influenced by the idea of opinion. It comes side by side with the saying "you hear what you want to hear", meaning that you will put your opinion into someone else's work.
Opinion can be influenced by the artists work to some point, however if you did not know who the artist was for a piece of work then there is an emptiness in the image when it comes to concept and meaning. Which the viewer naturally will create and manipulate with their opinion into what they see. Losing parts of the purpose behind the work. However in opposition this can be reversed."when the author has been found, the text is 'explained'" whilst looking at a work piece and you are told the artists identity, then the motive and concept of the image becomes more solid and prominent, as what that particular artist stands for may be a recurring feature in their practice.
Therefor we can argue that art forms, illustration in particular have an ongoing struggle to form imagery that could be recognised as theirs whist communicating something which may not be of their norm opinion. Does this show that the work will rarely mean what it is designed to? The endless development of an artist can be potentially be stripped away from their opinion, ready to be interpreted differently, "the explanation of a work is allways sought in the man or woman who produced it". Creating further questions as to is it always a positive influence to reveal the artist? This comes to the idea of celebritiam, when someone develops an name in any form of field they become renown for one aspect of it and society favour it over something that may do the job better. Purely from the fact that they are known. "The earliest sacred texts are authorless, their origins lost in history. In fact, the ancient, anonymous origin of such texts serves as a kind of authentication." this demonstrates an animosity within the people forming a possible equal respect for their work and an idea that everything is open to pure interpretation uninfluenced by a known authors running concept. This create respect for creators favouring the idea that "it is language which speaks, not to the author", this is an example of how many believe the best way to look at any form of creative work should be.
However this In turn may cause possible negative outcomes for individuals. whilst an artists ideas and influences may have varied effects, they are dependant on these characteristics of social renown. Without them there is little chance for personal success.
