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I can't draw a sharp line between cultural and personal criticism. As an example, I find certain genres of modern music distasteful for their lack of harmony a
by meuk 9y ago
I can't draw a sharp line between cultural and personal criticism.
As an example, I find certain genres of modern music distasteful for their lack of harmony and musical value. I can't really tell if this is cultural or personal criticism. Is this essentially the point that the author is making?
- beat 9y agoI deal with this personally by arguing that artistic merit is effectively objective - that whether a work of art is "good" or "bad" is independent of personal tastes. There are lots of good works of art that I simply don't like (and frankly, lots of bad art that I love). This is mostly as a counter to the common-as-dirt conceit of "I don't like this, therefore it sucks" that is many people's loud response to stuff that happens outside their own culture.