“Informal art” is open in that it proposes a wider range of interpretive possibilities, a configuration of stimuli whose substantial indeterminacy allows for a number of possible readings, a “constellation” of elements that lend themselves to all sorts of reciprocal relationships.
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The Open Work (1962), by Umberto Eco
interpretation, linguistics, metaworks, process, semiotics, theory, work of art
Umberto Eco