Although we assume that thinkers change society, from Socrates to Marx, what about artists? What about writers (novelists and poets)?
What for example did Shelley mean 'by poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'? For example, did this imply changes in perspective or the way words reconstruct that perspective?
Art influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time. Art in this sense is communication; it allows people from different cultures and different times to communicate with each other via images, sounds and stories.
To be specific, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the early 19th century English poets, changed human character from rationality to emotional responses to the world. Or that is the theory. This I suggest led to Freud and introspection, spiritualism, romance and ideas of charisma. But at the same time, other imperatives existed at the same time leading to the growth of capitalism where money itself was and is a signifier. Responses to the world and understanding of existence is projected onto visible monetary contracts.
Sujet très intéressant et pour ma part je mène une recherche sur la littérature utopique en tant que littérature des alternatives, qui a marqué la renaissance européenne et qui peut être relue différemment aujourd'hui non en tant que chimères et balivernes mais en tant que simulation littéraire d'autres modes de sociétés possibles (sur le plan politique/économique/scientifique/écologique etc.). Je pense sincèrement que la littérature peut changer la façon de voir le monde, elle agit sur les pensées et conditionne notre vision du monde.
Kawthar Ayed, spécialiste en littérature d'anticipation dystopiques et utopiques
Wolfgang,
Thereby the artist is representative of other possibilities beyond normative codes through behaviour and acts of creativity? The essential performance of being?
Kawthar Ayed
Moi aussi, mais je n'ai fait aucun travail sur le sujet. Je ne connais par exemple pas ces utopies de Renassaince, etc. à part Utopia elle-même de Thomas More. Mais ceux-ci ont tendance à être basés sur des hypothèses religieuses?
Gothic architecture reflected and expanded on ideas within Medieval Christianity, cornucopia of different artistic expressions from sculpture to colour, narrative and representatives of medieval power and spirituality. Revived in the 19th century it made a historic connection to the past and imagined ideals of the past reviving or creating tradition in some instances replacing classical style architecture with its insistence on imagined Ancient Greek values. These altered thinking, surely?
My opinion is that artists can influence the society. In good or bed direction ....@
Zorica Popovic,
what about societies with little art? Do they function differently?
Les utopies postérieures à Thomas More ne sont pas religieuses car pour l'essentiel elles projettent dans l'espace (nulle part) ou le temps ( futur) des constructions différentes à travers lesquelles les auteurs dressent une critique acerbe à leurs sociétés. Ce qui est/ ce qui pourrait être. Et c'est dans ce sens précis que l'utopie a la force dynamique de la suggestion. Montrer que monde n'est pas uniforme et que les systèmes économiques et politiques pourraient être différents. Prenant conscience de cela la volonté de changement et d'amélioration ébranle les lecteurs, les penseurs. "On sent bien qu'une utopie n'a pas à être d'emblée réalisable, sa force réside dans sa capacité à influencer la réalité, à l'irradier" (préface du livre de Frédéric Jameson, Archéologies du futur, le désir nommé utopie, p5)
Kawthar Ayed
La dystopie d'Aldous Huxley Brave New World se concentre sur un monde clinique desservi par des médicaments pour créer des humeurs et des déplacements. Et pourtant, c'est le monde moderne et personne ne le remarque.
The post-impressionists, Fauves, Matisse and Picasso provided a world lacking solid form and thereby presenting it as it is. The Renaissance painters, or at least those who followed them, provided a world of solidity and certainty. Every molecule was fixed to another molecule. There was neither religious nor ideological uncertainty. Tradition and nationalistic history ruled the day. But what people saw was not reality but a reflection of themselves. This was a world in flux.
Charles Dickens revealed the dystopia of London's underclass in his early novels, particularly Oliver Twist. Published in book form in 1839 it describes a city within London city with different routes through which the underclass travel, almost out of sight. It is the Id, in Freudian terms to the middle classes superego. There behaviour and rules are different. The romanticism of the poor by Henry Fielding was done away with and parts of the sordid reality exposed.
But Dickens went one better. Nancy the 17-year-old prostitute is mirrored in
Rose Maylie, presenting to his audience what Nancy might have been if she too had been born into a middle-class environment. Class mattered not morals. Monks of the Brownlow family and Oliver Twist's half-brother had squandered his inheritance and now provides a connection between the dystopic London world of thieves, murderers and likely paedophiles, Fagin, a world of gloom and fierce spirited inhabitants.
As Nancy is the only truly honest and moral character, ideas on criminality can be seen in terms of class not original sin, thereby changing gradually views on these matters.
The shameful treatment of orphans, gradually changing that treatment.
The shameful nature of workhouses, poverty and Poor Laws. Being poor was not a sin but simply a disadvantage.
Zorica, I have neither read the novel nor heard the name before. Sorry!
- Radoslaw Walkowiak, I actually agree with you. Modern British poetry tends to be excellent technically but has no soul. Has no fire. The lack of genuine quality in modern British novels is I suspect because publishing has become about agents. Genres, except horror, are rarely published.
Because of their essence of expressing themselves and communicating with the rest of society, they can, as Martí said "culture is the shield and sword of the nation"
They do. They're more sensible and prone to the changes rather prior to physicians
Concepts of human psychology and understandings of intentionality for example remained crude in much of the 19th century, only created an academic/scientific discipline in the latter part of that century. It still remains functionally crude to some extent.
But did the psychology we now enjoy based on intentionality, introspection and roles of responsibility appear due to writers such as George Eliot, Tolstoy but more emphatically Dostoievski? Was the criminal mind, understood as the result of environment, opportunity, desperation taken from the last of these?
Artists change society because they can make visible.
Once someone has seen something, they can never deny it.
Or the essential humanity of people in war, that this does not die. Tolstoy for example, Ford Madox Ford and Vasily Grossmann.
The knowledge of history is the keypoint to live better in our era and to prevent mistakes for a better future.
Writers and artist are the only ones takeing their time in a running society capable to document with a special taste our daily events what we're not able to remember or to focus on
What about Banksy painting on the sides of buildings in the UK?
https://www.canvasartrocks.com/blogs/posts/70529347-121-amazing-banksy-graffiti-artworks-with-locations
Very 'for the people!'
Novelists and poets make us dream, develop our imagination, inspire us and can affect our creativity as well. In words is hidden power. Words can hurt us, but also heal our soul. Novelists and poets know how to use them and what they want to to point out. Their words are message to our society.
Despite the enormous power of economic, media, and political organizations, intellectuals and artists need to come down from the margins, despite risking their comfort, defending the future, the ideals of humanity, aesthetics, and cultural uplift, with the roar of religious-nationalist and neoliberal global ideologies.
Dear Stanley Wilkin . First, allow me to commend the framing of your discussion. You, rightly, put novelists and poets among artists that can do much favoured social change that any claimed by politicians. In the words of Victor Pinchuk, "“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics".
Novelists and poets create create better worlds, more humane, just, and free. Their worlds and words heal, instruct, and enlighten. As Pavla Macháčková correctly pointed out, Artists extend effective messages that are well received and followed that are liable to cause real social reform than the empty rhetoric of "opportunistic politicians"! Artists, novelists, & poets deservedly qualify to what Shelley called "the unacknowledged legislators of the world"!
Art influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time. Research has shown art affects the fundamental sense of self. Painting, sculpture, music, literature and the other arts are often considered to be the repository of a society's collective memory.
https://www.sayebrand.com/blogs/blog-1/saye-blog-the-influence-of-art#:~:text=Art%20influences%20society%20by%20changing,of%20a%20society's%20collective%20memory.
I don't think they can do it in a decisive way, but it cannot be denied that they are quite influential
An artist depicts the happenings in society through various ways (paintings, poetry, etc), and thus influences the mindset of common people.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-art-benefit-human-society
Artists play one of the most important roles in our society. They can reshape our world into a better place, where once again freedom of thought and real communication can be disseminated through art and the universal language of realism. https://www.nspirement.com/2018/11/04/artists-and-their-role-in-society.html
Art influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time. Research has shown art affects the fundamental sense of self. Painting, sculpture, music, literature and the other arts are often considered to be the repository of a society's collective memory. https://www.masterpiecemixers.com/art-affect-culture-society/
Great Art stirs the imagination, causing us to pause, think and reflect. Art allows our minds to escape into childlike wonder. ... Art records the footprint of all peoples, cultures and the world around us... From prehistoric times, cave dwellers drew and carved on rock walls to record important history. https://fineartviews.com/blog/21810/the-importance-of-being-an-artist-in-todays-modern-world
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Yes, of course.
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Artists mould reality through their experiences and then share them. They are like doors to perception that invite an audience to step inside.
And Holly, I suggest their words and images create the means of interpretation.
Yes Artist can be change to a society in sense of that they find out informations from society action and speaks these informations in form of words So when words are believable then Society will automatically changed.
I hope I have not repeated what has already been written, but in the UK, the famous street artist Banksy has made changes to street life; meaning more than just the art, but attitudes, chat etc. etc.
I think everyone here has an opinion on Banksy.
This link has been clicked on 'outside' which is where people associate him with.
The video that shows his art demonstrates the beauty of his work:
https://www.banksy.co.uk/out.html
I could look at it for ages on this site!
Others copy his work. I feel that is a mark of true admiration
Mary, that is indeed what artists in general do, provide new ways of seeing, and create attention towards new aspects of life. Whether Constable who pointed out the colours in the landscape or Post-Impressionists who reconstructed the world.
Art is change per se. Through art, alternative ideas of reality develop, new, unfamiliar realities are created. Patterns of perception, thought and action are implicitly changed. Art does not give answers, it asks questions (and questions at the same time). Works of art are not only 'acts of painting' but mental conceptions that are designed and captured.
Panta Rhei: everything flows and therefore there are constant developments, breaks in tradition, changes in style - and thus revolutions in our habits of reception and life. These changes cause misunderstandings, stimulate hot debates. The new almost always succeeds. and therefore art education is so important: Chapter Art Education: Conflicts and Connections Book · December 2020
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