I would say much that could be called “art” definately wanders into the realm of morality or immorality (or at the very least ideology). “Piss Christ” for one. The poetry of Amiri Baraka for another.
And you’re still missing my point and focusing way too much on KOS.
Forget KOS. New example.
My in-laws are total hippie, atheist, greens - and professional poets ta boot!
They love Amiri Baraka and consider him a great “artist”.
He is no such thing. He is an anti-semitic, anti-American, communist pig. His words are not art, they are sewage.
Their opinions on LOTS of other “artistic” expressions runs in a similar vein and the fact they they themselves are “artists” means I am always getting their views on the subject.
So if they told me they “loved” a movie and that it was “art” it would take a whole lot of convincing from other sources to make me want to see the film.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth displayed by moon-bat libs over other movies I have seen (Red Dawn, Passion, Tears of the Sun, We were Soldiers, etc.) we’re very instrumental in me WANTING to see them. Any movie that gets a lib apoplectic must be pretty good. Any movie they kvell so
over might be one to avoid - especially when it involves young, impressionable children.
You can judge people by the company the keep no? You can often judge other things in life - like the quality or message of a movie - by the company they keep as well. Or, more accurately, their world view.
I meant that you don’t have to accept the moral worldview of a film/book/play to appreicate it. I don’t like the tone of petty snobishness in The Great Gatsby or the general socio-political tone of The Grapes of Wrath but that doesn’t mean I don’t like them overall.