Analyst or Moralist?
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Analyst or Moralist?
- For all its good intentions, art that tries to minister to its audience by showcasing moral aspirants and paragons or the abject victims of political oppression produces smug, tiresome works that are failures both as art and as agitprop. Artists and critics—their laurel bearers—should take heed.
from On the Aesthetic Turn | The Point Magazine by Anastasia Berg
- The Keatsian endeavor has never been popular, but is particularly unfashionable today. Religious fundamentalists reject it on the grounds that revelation and commitment are needed to orient oneself in the world. The amorality of a poet who is a “thoroughfare for all thoughts” risks heresy or destabilization. Tell me where you stand, where your loya... See more
from The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying by Zohar Atkins
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“All good art is political. There is none that isn’t, and the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo’.” —Toni Morrison
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