Ethical Responsibility of Art

~~bungalow~~ · 07-20-2010, 03:33 PM

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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~~bungalow~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Hot-lanta Posts: 3,061	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").