But we already have conservative art: endless AI renderings of an improbably jacked Donald Trump with no shirt on holding a machine gun. What more do they want?
A lot of my favorite writing is conservative at its core (mystery novels, some of Evelyn Waugh) but I’m not sure a lot of art works when the main message is petty cruelty or ‘screw you all.’
Art, in particular “good art,” is an act of creation. Creation is an act of change. It can challenge, but let’s stick with change as enough. Conservatism is a position opposed to change. That makes “good conservative art” a very tall order. I’m reductive, but still.
That author is circling something academia has accounted for since the Nazis. The further rightwards the POV gets, the more urgent the need to turn the "art" into propaganda. Could be the same with leftist extremists, but the culture is left of center aligned.
