Author name: Daniel Moattar

“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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