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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting… — Susan Sontag

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag
Freak Show · 1973
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Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.

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