The work of art as an object of interpretation
The article discusses special features of interpretation of a work of art. According to the author, a work of art as a product of spiritual culture has an inexhaustible reserve of sense and meanings. Anyone perceiving a work of art is autonomous subject of interpretation, in the process of which senses and meanings may be born, that do not coincide with either the author's intention or the prevailing aesthetic ideas. However, the postmodern idea of the “death of the author” distorts the very essence of artistic creativity. The work of art is “more than the author” and exists as an independent phenomenon of socio-cultural existence only because the author has created a unique “sensuous-super-sensuous” object that can induce more and more new senses and meanings in the minds of the subjects perceiving it.