{"id":4951,"date":"2014-09-19T20:06:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2014-09-19T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:09:49","slug":"is-art-really-for-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=4951","title":{"rendered":"Is art really &#8220;for&#8221; something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is Art for?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sn0bDD4gXrE?list=PLwxNMb28XmpdJpJzF2YRBnfmOva0HE0ZI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of Alain de Botton&#8217;s continuous effort to show art is good for us. It&#8217;s therapy. It&#8217;s an education. It&#8217;s moral training. You can&#8217;t disagree with anything said here about literature&#8211;and by implication, art or music or movies&#8211;but why does it seem utterly simple-minded? I wonder if anyone, having read Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary, decided, &#8220;Ok, then, I&#8217;m not going to have that affair with the butcher (prince, corporate raider, bass player).&#8221; If so, that&#8217;s fine, but doesn&#8217;t it miss the point? Art isn&#8217;t &#8220;for&#8221; anything, unless life itself is &#8220;for&#8221; something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This reminds me of Alain de Botton&#8217;s continuous effort to show art is good for us. It&#8217;s therapy. It&#8217;s an education. It&#8217;s moral training. You can&#8217;t disagree with anything said here about literature&#8211;and by implication, art or music or movies&#8211;but why does it seem utterly simple-minded? 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