Complete the account of interpretation.
Wimsatt and Beardsley named the intentional fallacy in ______. Barthes wrote that the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the ______, in 1967. Duchamp called the gap between the intended and the expressed the art ______. Magritte's La trahison des images, of 1929, works entirely through the ______ painted inside it.
Word bank: 1946 · author · coefficient · sentence · 1967 · reader
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- The first date is two decades before Barthes.
- The last blank is what turns a picture of a pipe into an argument.
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Wimsatt and Beardsley named the intentional fallacy in 1946. Barthes wrote that the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the author, in 1967. Duchamp called the gap between the intended and the expressed the art coefficient. Magritte's La trahison des images, of 1929, works entirely through the sentence painted inside it.
The last blank is the cheapest demonstration in the subject. Remove the words and the painting is an illustration of a pipe; add them and it is a claim about representation itself. Nothing in the paint changed, which is exactly the point being made.
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