Maybe broadening the debate around architecture and politics as they have been triggered by the events around Zaha Hadid Architects in Qatar and Azerbaijan. Alex Ross: The illusion I have in mind is the belief that one can engage in blatantly political activity and then, in the face of protest, insist that politics has nothing to do with art. The rote repetition of a tidy cliché about artistic autonomy rings hollow when it is used as a protective shield. Such rhetoric poisons the art-for-art’s-sake mentality that Perl ardently defends. The problem is acute in classical music because of a longstanding devotion to the concept of “absolute music”—the idea that Bach, Beethoven, and the rest inhabit a spiritually pure sphere, far above the vulgarities of politics. Also read the essay by Jed Pearl in The New Republic.(Link in the first part of Ross text.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:03:13 +0000
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