[lbo-talk] art's objectivity (tangent on faulkner thread)

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Oct 1 14:35:22 PDT 2006


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.
>
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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