The communicability of art and the problem of private language in public narrative space

This paper examines how private artistic language intervenes in public narrative space, focusing on the problem of communicability faced by private artistic experience in processes of public expression and understanding. By introducing the philosophical problem of private language, it argues that private experience inevitably undergoes loss, distortion, and interpretive uncertainty when translated into public forms. Drawing on Wittgensteins rejection of private language and Kants theories of aesthetic ideas, genius, and taste, the paper reveals a structural tension between private experience and public comprehension. It further engages with John Deweys notion of art as evocative communication, addressing both its potential for facilitating communication and its limitations in relation to abstract ideas. Through experimental studies on textual annotation, the paper demonstrates that text is not a neutral medium but can shape and constrain interpretation. Finally, it argues that public narrative space, while enabling artistic exchange, may also intensify the challenges posed by private language, leaving private artistic language in a persistently unresolved and tension-filled condition within public narrative space.