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Maybe it would be better phrased as "art has the capacity for exploring and engaging with empathy"? Just because someone said a urinal is art doesn't mean that
by zwkrt 8y ago
Maybe it would be better phrased as "art has the capacity for exploring and engaging with empathy"? Just because someone said a urinal is art doesn't mean that The Brothers Karamazov is less impactful to me.
- selune 8y agoIt would make more sense but then what's the point in arguing about it? It has that capacity, because, well, I feel empathetic towards certain people/groups of people after, say, watching some movies. Case closed. I feel like the writer wants to explore how effective this could be as a tool for social change since there is a huge discourse going on about it in the context of pop culture (representation in popular media, glorification of certain subjects (war, violence), objectification, etc) but ventures into weird and a little bit difficult to comprehend (at least for me) philosophical space.
- throwaway2048 8y agoA lot of people seem to hung up on the idea that art has to be good. Art can be completely deplorably awful, it doesn't have to be good to be art.