Art aims, instead, at the disturbance of habit. Art is a kind of reflective activity. Works of art—whether pictures or writings…
Art aims, instead, at the disturbance of habit. Art is a kind of reflective activity. Works of art—whether pictures or writings or dances or songs, or whatever—represent and explore us by reworking the raw materials of our organization. I don’t mean that artists—always and everyday— are revolutionaries; that is a particularly and narrowly contemporary (“avant-garde”) conception. But the very workof art—the work of drawing, say— can end up being revolutionary, emancipatory, anyway.
Alva Noë. 2023. The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.