Essay: Should Artists Be Committed?

Plum Magazine

Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch. Fig. 6. Detail of Sisyphus in 26.244. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 613

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No, not committed like that. Many in the arts have effectively bought—hook, line and sinker—into French writer Jean-Paul Sartre’s dictum that one must be committed—that one must choose a hill to die on, get a tattoo, join a cult of brand, and be an activist to the death. A symptom, notwithstanding an arguable amount of social progress, has been that certain things deemed vague and self-gratifying have been devalued in...
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