Why Good Politics Makes for Bad Art

[BidenPresident]

Here is how the entertainer Lin-Manuel Miranda opened “What Art Can Do,” a 2019 magazine article: “All art is political. ... Art lives in the world, and we exist in the world, and we cannot create honest work about the world in which we live without reflecting it.” He goes on, in no less bracing prose, to explain that his forthcoming film is about immigrants, who indeed live in the world, and that some immigrants have been demonized.

Present political conditions, Miranda writes, have made his story a “radical narrative.” Today, “for some, considering an immigrant a human being is a radical political act.”

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/good-politics-bad-art

 

[BidenPresident]

"Political art has been prominent; derivative, pedantic, unambitious, historically ignorant, shallow, designed-by-committee art has been more prominent still. Great artworks may or may not be difficult but are always ruthlessly singular expressions. A culture valuing inclusion above all else will never know its masterpieces."

 

[T. A. Gardner]

"All art is political?"

Entertainer Lin-Manuel Miranda is nucking futs. She's an idiot.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

is this article about legal immigrants or illegal immigrants?.....

 

[BidenPresident]

"All art is political?"

Entertainer Lin-Manuel Miranda is nucking futs. She's an idiot.

He is a man.
And he had a very successful run on Broadway with, "Hamilton."

 

[T. A. Gardner]

He is a man.
And he had a very successful run on Broadway with, "Hamilton."

Appeal to popularity, irrelevant. All art is not political.

 

[BidenPresident]

Appeal to popularity, irrelevant. All art is not political.

ok