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Article: Art & ethics at Yale.(Notes & Comments)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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One of the chief lessons of contemporary
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avant-garde
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art, especially that which pullulates in an academic setting, is that the unutterably tedious can cohabit seamlessly with the repellent. That may seem counterintuitive. After all, wasn
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t the main point of
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transgressive
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art to rescue us from banality, to lift us out of the tedious, taken-for-granted way of looking at things in which all of us philistine, middle-class bourgeois folks have been absorbed since childhood? That
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s certainly a large part of the rhetoric. It is curious, though, how rarely that happens. Why?
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