Carrol Cox wrote:
>1. The purpose of art is to embody ideology, and thereby make ideology
>visible. To divide art from ideology is to kill art and make ideology
>impervious to analysis.
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Say what?
>3. No one has ever yet proposed a satisfactory criterion for
>distinguishing art from non-art. All the criteria that have been urged
>succeed only in making it impossible to distinguish good art from bad
>art.
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Which is just to say that critical commentary is not a fit container for
art; but not to say that the distinction between good art and bad art
doesn't exist.
Joanna
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