From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 15:48:08 MDT
--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:>
> But I still cannot agree with the sweeping statement that "all
> art is propaganda" for two reasons.
>
> The first is that I can imagine paintings, movies, sculptures
> and so on that have no political or philosophical content
> whatsoever. To project such on them---in other words, to
> force them into category of propaganda is a misuse of
> language. One, can easily verify my claim in two ways:
> one, by going to the dictionaries and thereby attempt to
> learn what one is usually communicating by the term
> "propaganda", and two, to think how well you would react
> if someone called your work propaganda.
When I attend a political protest with a blank sign, am I, or am I not
making a political statement? If I do the same in front of a corporate
headquarters, or government office?
Saying nothing is a message of acquiescence...
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