http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/01/bad-politics-great-art-2/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/01/bad-politics-great-art-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4440 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:11:01 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=1588#comment-4440 It’s a Romantic trope that the artist triumphs over adversity. It was a particularly appealing one in America during the Cold War, that individual expressiveness would ultimately prove more powerful than the forces of repressive control. Though it does seem to be true that culture often expresses things that can’t get done in politics. Aristotle, of course, called it catharsis.

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