“People have always needed art: but why have they needed it?”

— Kenneth Tynan

Review of The Necessity of Art (1959) by Ernest Fischer
Tynan Right and Left (1967)
Context: People have always needed art: but why have they needed it? And what shaped the forms by which they satisfied their need? … In the arts form tends to be conservative, and content to be revolutionary; it is novelty of content that precedes, demands and imposes novelty of form.

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