This new Austrian tribe demands more active engagement from the viewer.
Every inch of the surface has to be won, must be argued through, bears the traces of curiosity and inquisition - above all, takes nothing for granted and demands active engagement from the viewer as its right.
The United States cannot afford to sit on the sidelines without active engagement from a USAid administrator to convey American views as negotiations heat up and high-level officials from around the world step in to finalise the outcome".
Boxall doesn't pull his punches: "It demands more active engagement from the students themselves, which may be unwelcome to those looking for a spoon fed educational experience," he says.
"Every inch of the surface has to be won," he wrote of Freud's canvases in The Guardian in 2004, "must be argued through, bears the traces of curiosity and inquisition — above all, takes nothing for granted and demands active engagement from the viewer as its right".
There was also the fact, pointed out earlier, that Tchaikovsky's music demanded active engagement from the listener and, as Botstein phrases it, "spoke to the listener's imaginative interior life, regardless of nationality".
