The Moral Countenance of Art

[Philosophy Now]

Emrys Westacott asks if we can really tell what it is that films and other art are either condemning or condoning.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/105/Th ... nce_of_Art

[HexHammer]

LooOOoOOoOoooooong talkative post, could easily be cut by 1/3 or even 50%.

[Pluto]

ZDT is an advert for the US, if an artwork promotes and condones the actions of state power it isn't art. Leni Riefenstahl's triumph of the will is creatively made but not art as it is in the service of a political ideology and demigod. Bigelow does the same with bigger budgets and more sophisticated psychological techniques. The US has an image problem and so uses film to make it not seem so. Art is its own power of no ideology.