Posted on 17/05/08
The personal is the political is the artistic
KINGSTON, ONT. -- The age-old difficulty facing artists who feel compelled to engage with the political issues of their time involves the trick of balancing the political, the personal and the aesthetic. Is the creative personality of the political artist destined to be subsumed among like-minded others (like a sort of artistic Borg embedded in a collective)? Or, equally unacceptable, will it become the captive of an unwanted but perhaps inevitable elitism, where the artist gradually becomes a kind of lonely hero of virtuoso expressiveness?
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