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Art for Life's Sake |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ART AND SOCIETY |
| Author: Ellen Dissanayake |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 4,562 Words, 28,155 Characters |
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In a century of violence and change, of increasing vulgarity and continued erosion of once-cherished values, it is perhaps not surprising that the arts also are often outrageous and unpleasant or tawdry. Yet at the same time, there are still many who believe that art should be a repository of beauty and truth, something that uplifts our spirit and helps us to recognize and strive for noble ideals.
What is art, and what is its purpose today? The controversy last year about government subsidy (though the National Endowment for the Arts) of work that many consider to be offensive is only the most publicly visible instance of contemporary uncertainty about the nature and function of art. Even while the buying and selling of artworks is a billion dollar business and while hundreds of t...
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... of education and community development should, in my view, be exploring ways to enable all people to make their individual and collective lives more significant through art - making things special - rather than acquiring, consuming, interpreting, disputing, destroying, or cynically repudiating them, which seem to be the entrenched if ultimately unsatisfying responses to our postmodern world.
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