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When art is repressed, we miss the message.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20010416
Author:Tammeus, Bill
The poet Robert Browning may have said most clearly what frightens so many people about art: "Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth."
If we add to Browning's assertion this truth from essayist and historian James Truslow Adams _ "Every art is social" _ we begin to understand why history is scarred by relentless efforts to censor or at least control art.
And this isn't limited just to ancient history, either. In quite recent times, Afghanistan's rulers have ordered historic statues destroyed and the archbishop of Santa Fe, N.M., has demanded removal of a ...
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