On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:06:45AM -0500, Dennis wrote:
> > > Call me an aesthete and a formalist, but freshly beautiful use of
> > > language, and emotional and/or intellectual complexity. What makes so
> > > much "political" art bad is that it recycles cliches - that it's
> > > painfully earnest and straightforward. Tell the truth, but tell it
> > > slant, as Emily Dickinson said.
> > >
> > > Doug
> >
> > Or, as my poetry profs like Henry Carlyle like to say, "If you've
> > got a message, send it Western Union". Red propaganda dressed up in
> > tired cliches is not art.
> >
> > Miles
>
> Wasn't it Stendahl who said that politics in art is like a pistol shot at a
> concert? Depends on the concert and who's doing the shooting, I suppose. For
> my money nothing beats the films and music released during the Cultural
> Revolution -- agitprop a go-go, all praising the Great Lard Forward. If
> anyone knows how to get ahold of "The East is Red," a Maoist musical, sort
> of a Red Guards version of "Oklahoma," let me know.
>
> DP
>
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