On Art, Power, and Humility

• Autores: Holland Cotter
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 1, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The fear of art), págs. 141-147
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Against the framework of a visit to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the backdrop of 9/11, Holland Cotter writes about "how much of the art I've loved and written about over the years is in fact claiming territory, is in fact about us versus you"; that "People say that art embodies the best about human kind; it also embodies the worst. Absolutely nothing about it is innocent." What we take as a portrayal of beauty is equally an art of fear