I'm pretty much one of those uncultured aestheticists. That is how I rate everything.
People who expect the meaning of life from art are miserable twats, as there is no meaning to life and even if there was, how lazy it must be to demand that artists point it out for you instead of trying to figure it out youself.
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Originally Posted by bungalow
the paper i am writing is sort of sparked by chinua achebe's famous essay on heart of darkness, "an image of africa" where he argues that conrad is a racist and heart of darkness is racist and therefore heart of darkness should not be considered art nor conrad an artist. i disagree with this on the most basic level because i do not believe that something is any-less art because it comes from a racist perspective. and i don't believe that art has any ethical or moral responsibility--so essentially i am arguing for aestheticism (which achebe has called a "piece of deodorized dog shit").
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Really? You've always seemed to project the exact opposite viewpoint.