Chrisonomicon

Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Robert Brustein talks at the Partisan Review of the Four Horsemen of the Anti-Culture—moral, political, aesthetic, and fiscal correctness—and how they threaten to lay siege to the arts by homoginizing cultural attitudes and awareness. To illustrate that arts have been sabotaged by financial limitations, Brustein makes the argument:

When American children think of music, they think of rock. When they think of poetry, they think of hip-hop. When they think of art, they think of graffiti. We are no longer developing audiences for the serious arts.

While I can substantiate his argument on many levels and even agree that these forms of art aren't "serious," dedicated practices that remain true to traditional forms of artistic expression, this argument merely exemplifies the fact that aesthetic correctness has tainted our approach, "demanding that the arts conform to traditional, often conventional rules of creative procedure."