Ellen Dissanayake (cont.): Ellen Dissanayake synthesize knowledge from a variety of fields – including anthropology, developmental and cognitive psychology, ethnology, and philosophy. In her essay If “Great” Art is Dead …”, Matthew Arnold is an important source of inspiration. Arnold writes: Culture is the pursuit of total perfection by means of getting to know the best…
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If Great Art is Dead, Who Cares?
in the words of Ellen Dissanayake: If we now abandon the ideology (or religion) of art that temporarily replaced the ideology of religion, is it enough for us to replace both of these – religion & art – with wit, in the form of clever humor, clever amusements, and with-it-ness? Our abandonment of false truths…
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