Bill,
Telegraphically:
1. 'As far as the late nineteenth century goes, I think of art for art's sake as the dominant English highbrow mode...' - please, and French!
2. The idea of art as superstructure has long been superseded by linguistics, structural anthropology, critical theory, etc. The only people who still believe it are the ones Sartre called 'lazy marxists'.
3. 'a 'problematic' relationship between art and politics. This excludes Wilde...' But not the Cubans (well, some of them). At any rate, one of my favourite dicta about this is Armando Hart, when he was Minister of Culture: 'The problem is that to confuse art and politics is a political error, while separating art and politics is another error.'
Michael
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