[.cnI redruM]

Perhaps Moore's latest crockumentary should be dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the artistic muse of the agitprop attack film.

[Proverbs 3-5]

Some argue for circumstance, positing that if Julius Caesar had been born illiterate in 640 A.D., no one alive today would even know his name. Others would counter that if Thomas Edison had been born illiterate in 640 A.D., the printing press would have been invented nine centuries or so earlier.

I was born illiterate!

[ClearCase_guy]

There is certainly something to what you say. However, the French Revolution certainly used Art as a Weapon. A great deal of pornography was produced, featuring Marie Antoinette ("proving" to the people that she was unfit to be Queen). The great painter David then portrayed Napoleon (and other revolutionary figures) in ways that helped sway public opinion.

Moving past that, the Spanish painter Goya and the French painter Millet portrayed victims of the Ruling Class and working peasants in ways which were designed to evoke sympathy.

Lenin contributed, but did not originate, the Art as a Political Weapon meme.

[ijcr]

The text reads:- “The conditions for economic growth are the heightening of discipline among workers, a lessening of the workload and intensity of labour and an improvement in its organisation.”

[kitkat]

Place mark for an interesting discussion.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Some argue for circumstance, positing that if Julius Caesar had been born illiterate in 640 A.D., no one alive today would even know his name.

I think he was, actually, born illiterate. Despite that, the article brought up some valid ideas.

[AmericanChef]

-"This is why "Roger and Me" and "Fahrenheit 9/11" are seen as works of art..."-

Oh, please! It's seen as art only because it's in the form of a movie. Otherwise, it can be put on TV in the form of a Rat political commercial, and nobody'd know the difference.

I can take a picture of my toilet bowl, slap some pithy political wordage on it, and somebody would call that art. Even if I do it just to con the art whores.

[FierceDraka]

BRAVO!

This is what is behind every piece of modern "art" involving excrement, rotting meat, and mindless smears of paint.

The point of "art" is no longer to inspire or induce the viewer to reflect on life, but to rub the viewer's face in the hatred today's "artists" feel toward anything good or decent.

[dangus]

Ars Vitae?
Try Ars Humungous.

[Cannoneer No. 4]