> I'm not claiming that all art has an explicit political position. Just that all art exists in a context that is impossible to perfectly separate from politics

> I'm not claiming that all art has an explicit political position. Just that all art exists in a context that is impossible to perfectly separate from politics. You could say the same thing about anything. Every single piece of art is about oxygen. The artist had to breathe while creating the art; it's impossible to separate the art from the oxygen that enabled it. All art is oxygenated. It's a pointless and un-insightful comment to make. Just because you can draw a tenuous connection between a peice of art and politics doesn't make the art about politics, and more than the art is about oxygen.