The conception of morality as an art, which Christendom once disdained, seems now again to be finding favor in men’s eyes. Its path has been made smooth by great thinkers of various complexion.

So we wind up with safer art and discourse that provokes and disturbs and shocks less. It gives us culture whose artistic value has been replaced by moral judgment and leaves us with monocriticism.

It’s a longstanding problem, but it bears repeating, this time in words from Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct: “Arts encounters with morality and politics are made difficult by the fact that ...

then the art is not of the best kind. The Greek tragedies, for example, embodied the highest moral and religious teachings of the Greeks in lofty poetry. These works still live and continue to ...

Tzvetan Todorov explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up The Limits of Art. In one essay, “Artists and Dictators,” Todorov traces the intimate ...

In a time of global moral upheaval, the art market would do well to take a deep look in the mirror and make a determined change in the right direction. Art and morality go hand in hand. A good artwork ...

Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. The first thing you notice about ...

Others think the moral character of the artist has no bearing on the worth of the art. In his essay ‘The Death of the Author’, the French literary critic Roland Barthes argues that a book and ...