The Art of Truth in an Age of Lies

“All art is propaganda,” George Orwell wrote in 1940. “On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.” That, in Orwell’s view, was a lost understanding: clear to Victorian authors like Dickens; obscure to his contemporaries of the late 1930s, who were too coy or deluded to square “art for art’s saking in the ivory […]

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