The document discusses different views on what art is and criteria for evaluating art. It mentions definitions of art as an outlet for internal images, as a lie that reveals truth, and as something that can be reflected upon. It lists three criteria for judging art: the artist's intention, the quality of the work, and audience response. It also discusses what makes a good work by inducing emotion in viewers and conveying moral lessons. It covers debates around intentionalism versus universal standards and the relationship between art, knowledge, communication, education, and revealing truth.
2. “ It is an outlet for the natural primordial need to externalise internal images and preserve sensual experience in an independent form, communicating and hence validating such experience” The Gulbenkian Report
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7. "During the Cold War, the CIA subsidized the avant-garde through front organizations such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which supported abstract expressionist painters as well as intellectual magazines like Encounter, Monat, and Partisan Review. The idea was precisely not to attach political strings to specific artists or projects, but to show ambivalent foreign elites that Western capitalist democracy constituted the most fertile ground for artistic freedom." SHARON L. BUTLER | September 24, 2007 “THE AMERICAN PROSPECT”
