关键词: 过度阐释, 强制阐释, 多元阐释, 艺术批评, 阐释边界

Abstract:

Art criticism interrogates artistic meaning and makes value judgments while mediating relationships between artwork, artist, audience, and world. However, the multiplicity and uncertainty of artistic meaning can lead to tendencies of over-interpretation and forced interpretation in critical analysis. The former emphasizes unlimited meaning generation from a reader-centric perspective, while the latter subordinates artistic meaning to serve the critic’s predetermined theoretical positions. Discussion of interpretive limits has been a significant academic topic since the mid-twentieth century, inherently comprising multiple voices and possibilities. Examining different interpretive tendencies through simplistic unitary or binary oppositional perspectives risks extreme positions. The artistic objects faced by criticism require systematic and historical approaches that neither detach from the critical object itself nor restrict the open possibilities for discovering extended meanings and creative implications beyond literal representation.

Key words: over-interpretation, forced interpretation, multiple interpretation, art criticism, interpretive boundaries