"Dirt" provides a very literal, coloring-book interpretation of a tyrannical publishing diva: the wall art in Lucy's office is a giant Renaissance-style painting of nude figures twisting under the fiery torments of hell.
Their second book, "Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts," was published by Thomson/West last month.
The new book, "Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts," is lucid and accessible, though only the name of one of its authors makes it of interest to the general reader.
Sontag, an old friend, had dedicated her breakthrough book, "Against Interpretation," to Thek in 1966.
By June 1 , 1913 the term had become "psychoanalysis" in a review of Freud's book "The Interpretation of Dreams".
Susan Sontag dedicated her 1966 book, "Against Interpretation," to him, and his "meat" sculptures — Plexiglas reliquaries filled with flesh made of wax — presaged Damien Hirst's work by decades.
The essays of her first nonfiction book, "Against Interpretation" (1966), are anything but "against": they are smothered by the impulse to catch and classify not only her ideas but those of others.
That book's interpretation of Shostakovich — not as "resentful," but as bitter, comic, sardonic and attentive to double meanings — may have been familiar to many in the Soviet Union, but it was not familiar in the West.
He published several editions of early music, and his book, The Interpretation of the Music of the XVII and XVIII Centuries (1915 and 1944), became a basic work in its field.
Thek, who died of AIDS in 1988, at the age of fifty-four, has long been a cult figure in art circles — Susan Sontag dedicated her book "Against Interpretation" to him, for starters — but the three-decade survey will come as a revelation to most.
"Every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state," Freud wrote in his landmark book, The Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1899.
