by professorpan » Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:35 am
Great thread, and some incredible images.<br><br>But I can't go along with the "guilt by association" Kubrick bashing. <br><br>Kubrick, as an artist, dealt with some dark, unpleasant aspects of human nature. But <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>that's what art often does.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> Equating an artist who deals with aspects of the shadow -- Kubrick, Lynch, Coppola, Scorsese -- with someone who actually does bad things is absurd. Art is not all sugar and spice. Art helps us understand *reality,* and reality is sometimes dark and ugly. If you don't like unsettling art, fine -- don't watch it. <br><br>If it's true that artists who deal with unpleasant subjects are unpleasant people who do unpleasant things, then we should avoid Faulkner, Hemingway, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Roald Dahl, John Updike, Bob Dylan, James Joyce, Ian McEwen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and (fill in the blank with any relevant artist) because they are perverted, unholy perpetrators of violence and filth.<br><br>Art is the way we understand the good and bad parts of ourselves. <p></p><i></i>