Word: depestrian
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...serving, in Cowan's words, "with equal effectiveness as an artist and propagandist." Rather, it is one of seeking points of contact, empathy, and pedestrian, and thereby transform at the man situation--be it religious, social, political, or whatever--that permit the artist to transcend the mundane and depestrian, and thereby transform at the level of artistic expression the very human situation that concerns him. In creating this transformation, the artist can do no other than to propagate, project or proclaim something. What else can he do? And if he is a truly great artist, this something will...
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