Morris Weistz is my favorite theorist which we have read so far, if one can call him a theorist since he denies all theory. But Weistz definitely takes into account his own opinion and these theories of critics and skeptics (as I called them in my previous post). He knows what he wishes to see in a work of art but he also knows what he wishes to understand in a piece of art. There is his opinion and his theory comes in when he states at the end that all these art critics and theorists should be bundled together as a kind of "guideline" to understanding art. But no one theorist should be held highest above all.
Morris Weistz is especially good in my regard because he is not overly verbose and delivers his point very quickly unlike Hume who, I thought, talked about the same topic or idea for a very long time. Weistz has a simple point to make and he makes it in six pages, while involving examples and a couple other sources. That is very condensed and easy to understand and that is the main reason I enjoy his essay.
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