Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ionesco: Yes--and yes and no. That's to say, art allows you everything. Art can exist outside the immediate contingencies. The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. Right now, there is a series of articles in Le Monde where they say that art and culture are the expression of argument and revolt....But all this doesn't matter. Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going...
Crimson: Have you been politically committed in your art? For example, were any of your plays written in reaction to May 1968 or the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Russia...
Ionesco's stubborn refusal to align his art with the politics of these "engaged" critics and Party members had its consequences. Several months later, after seeing an untouched revival of The Chairs, the same critics who had previously lauded him now apologized for their mistaken praise. "They simply said the play was not worth seeing," says Gaetan. "He was told he no longer had the talent...
...art and literature have been too committed to political ends, especially in countries which are highly "ideologized," like Russia, for example. Now people should be reeducated in the following direction. they must be shown the necessity of play and the fact that literature is a game...
Maling Soong Foundation Lecture: Sheila Winer, Professor of Art, University of Massachusetts on "The Art of the Indus Civilization, Turkmenistan, and Mesopotamia." Open to all. Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...