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Art Isn’t *Only* For Art’s Sake; Politics Is There, But It Isn’t *Everything*

ISSUES Posted: August 21, 2014 12:20 pm

Alex Ross, responding to Jed Perl: “To debate whether politics is always present or always absent is to play a parlor game irrelevant to the complex, ever-shifting reality in which both artists and their audiences reside. … Ultimately, I cannot forget the historical context. But forgetting is not essential to a full and passionate engagement with the music.” Ross takes as examples the much argued-over Richards, Wagner and Strauss.

ISSUES Published: 08.20.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 08.20.14

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