Like other mystical Shī'ah sects, they placed a great deal of importance upon poetry and art.
These weighed upon art before, of course, but never so thoroughly dominated it.
History, some of it quite recent, shows that when politcs intrudes upon art, the results are not beneficial to artists, their works or the public.
I look upon music and art from a very idealistic standpoint.
In effect, she wrote, interpretation had become "the intellect's revenge upon art."
Several notable retrospectives have examined the influence of Dada upon art and society.
That he called upon art as a persuasive means of stating his convictions is admirable.
They exchanged some opinions upon art, and medicine, and life.
The influence of Rousseau and these later writers is also large upon art and politics.
Susan Sontag called interpretation "the revenge of the intellect upon art."