Comment by mola

As engineers we usually have a direct conscious intention for the details of our creation. Art doesn't work that way. The art piece is a piece of the artist and her surroundings. Including her conscious intentions, the naturalized social norms, her deep subconscious urges and desires, And with today's commoditized art, it includes the preferences of the collective unconscious. Literary analysis have plenty to work with. Diminishing art to the artist intentions does injustice to culture.