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The Limits of Artistic Tolerance |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ART AND SOCIETY |
| Author: Morton A. Kaplan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,986 Words, 17,171 Characters |
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The discussion of the changing meaning of art in "Art for Life's Sake" by Ellen Dissanayake is perceptive and eminently sensible. Her conclusion: "Art, as the universal predilection to make important things special,…is far more…relevant than its intrinsic sanctity or freedom…" is justly proportioned. But I perceive as flawed her prior judgment: "The small proportion of offensive or poorly conceived works that are inevitable should not be the cause to hamstring or scrap the whole enterprise. (Were ours an authoritarian and elite society, then the funding [of art] should of course be restricted to officially approved and safe art.)"
The issue is not whether art or other forms of communication meet common approval but whether they transcend some line that makes them unacceptable, a...
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...th respect to the outrageous, they should not expect the rest us to take their opinions seriously. Until they do so, they will continue to provoke legislative retribution that is not always balanced. If they really care about increasing public support for artistic excellence and for creativity and experimentation, then they should exercise prudential care not to provoke justified outrage. vbcrlf
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