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EP 21: Imagery of Vision in the novels of James Joyce

Pathways with Joseph Campbell

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What Is Proper Art?

Joyce says proper art is static and improper art is kinetic. He tells us improper art inspires in the beholder either desire or loathing for the object depicted. The other thing, exciting loathing is a didactic art, a critical of society. Since Zola's time has been exactly that. D didactic pornographic art,. I call it sociological writer, a pornographic didactic or a didactic pornography. That's not a good idea of aesthetic arrest.

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