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i spent three-fourths of yesterwake in a Farscape marathon on the Sci-fi channel. i'd like to take a moment now to defend television.
High art would like to establish an autonomy from banalities. However, every work of art presents a perspective on ordinary human existence, and the fact that television is closer to everyday life allows its perspective to be less abstract. In this way, television serves as a foil to "higher" art:
HARRY: You know, Cookie, I gotta tell you, a great writer named Sophocles said that it was probably best not to be born at all.
COOKIE: Well, honey, it's a little too late for that.
The extent to which art attempts to be autonomous is the extent to which i dislike it. The simple truth is that there is joy and connection and benefit in every medium. And the only measure of art is life.
posted by Arthur @
6/01/2002 09:02:00 PM
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