Timeline for What circumstances would lead art and artisan works to be considered 'worthless' or detrimental in society?
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| Nov 1, 2020 at 4:49 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 31, 2020 at 23:29 | answer | added | Atog | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 21:58 | comment | added | MarielS | In a culture springing up from an extreme survival situation, where surviving is still the highest priority, art as a whole might be devalued for having no practical purpose contributing to the community's survival. Someone who chooses to expend a lot of energy on art may be ridiculed or even punished for not contributing enough of actual "value". Actually making art as a whole ILLEGAL, though, that's harder to justify. As others have noted, sometimes a specific medium or content in art has been outlawed or frowned upon irl, but not to my knowledge art as a whole concept or practice. | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 21:51 | comment | added | Cadence | @AlexP Those are all instance where specific art was disfavored, but not art as a whole concept. Each of those cultures has plenty of "allowed" art. | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 21:24 | answer | added | Trish | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 21:24 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 21:22 | comment | added | AlexP | "I'm having a little dificulty finding a situation": Photographers who liked to take pictures of undressed women in Victorian times. Poets who like to write satirical works, at all times and in all places. (What do you think, why was the Apocolocyntosis, The pumpkinification of Divine Claudius, published anonymously?) Artists who like to paint their works on the walls of public buildings. Artists who like to make revolutionary posters. There are many clandestine artists right now. See samizdat. | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 20:46 | history | asked | Sony-Shock | CC BY-SA 4.0 |