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On Art, Power, and Humility
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 83, Number 1, Spring 2016
- pp. 141-147
- 10.1353/sor.2016.0013
- Article
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Against the framework of a visit to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the backdrop of 9/11, Holland Cotter writes about “how much of the art I’ve loved and written about over the years is in fact claiming territory, is in fact about us versus you”; that “People say that art embodies the best about human kind; it also embodies the worst. Absolutely nothing about it is innocent.” What we take as a portrayal of beauty is equally an art of fear.