Constantine said 1.5 million people had encountered a work from the collection last year, not counting the works lent to hospitals, universities and libraries.
The audience seemed to enjoy this too, but many might prefer to encounter a work of theater without having it interpreted first.
Not since Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans" have I encountered a work that cedes so little to the pleasure principle, that militates so actively against its own reading.
The third principal issue that concerned Bosanquet is what happens when a person encounters a work of art, i.e., aesthetic appreciation.
When was the first time you encountered a work by Freud, or a work in which the subject held a direct gaze with you, the viewer?
She has lost none of the excitement and wonder with which she first encounters a work of art and seeks to understand, interpret, and share it.
In China, the opposite is true.A final headache for Chinese expats is that, when you move to an oppressive Western capitalist society, you encounter a working class that can throw its weight around.
Hip-hop has progressed a long way beyond its old macho image, but still it's a surprise to encounter a dance work like Smother, which places a story of gay love and gay relationships at its heart.
But those words apply to readers, too, for we read in the dark when we encounter a real work of art; we can never know where it will take us.
For the rest of her stay in Italy, whenever she encounters a great work of art (a Cimabue in Assisi, say, or a Raphael in the Uffizi), she observes carefully, teasing out specific meanings, while reaching — with more variable success — for philosophical precepts.
