The brilliant Rosa Luxemburg was so blessed with talent that she could have made her mark in a number of areas other than the political arena; one of those areas was the world of art.
An intellectual who was an accomplished artist as well as the most powerful Socialist writer of her generation, Luxemburg was expected to contribute to the literature of art critique, but in fact did little. Her position was that one should confront art personally, rather than accept another's opinion. She felt that good art naturally recommended itself to the viewer and required no endorsement.
She did, however, have preconceived ideas about what constituted good art, and her tastes were thoroughly conventional. In short, she expected that good art--in her appraisal of it--had the power to speak to individuals in a way that poor art did not. The idea of art as subjective was foreign to her.
So, what do you think? Are there clearly established values of art? Is art appreciation subjective?
2007-09-07
13:00:41
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Jack B, sinistral
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