text: [{"text_idx": "#000001", "text": "We will begin with one of the canonical works of high modernism in visual art, Van Gogh's\nwell-known painting of the peasant shoes, an example which, as you can imagine, has not been\ninnocently or randomly chosen. I want to propose two ways of reading this painting, both of\nwhich in some fashion reconstruct the reception of the work in a two-stage or double-level"}]