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    Art is shaped by societal and historical forces, it engages in dialogue across different voices and perspectives, and it constructs new ways of seeing the world by making the familiar strange and foregrounding social structures. The document argues that art has social importance by being value-laden and can help liberate suppressed voices and perspectives while also constituting subjects as active agents through assuming different cultural points of view.

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    Art is shaped by societal and historical forces, it engages in dialogue across different voices and perspectives, and it constructs new ways of seeing the world by making the familiar strange and foregrounding social structures. The document argues that art has social importance by being value-laden and can help liberate suppressed voices and perspectives while also constituting subjects as active agents through assuming different cultural points of view.

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    Art and Society:

    Theses and
    Imperatives*
    *From Alice Guillermo’s preface to Art and Society
    1

    ART IS SOCIOHISTORICAL
    1.1
    Art is
    formal
    1.2
    Art is
    polyphonic
    2

    ART IS DIALOGIC
    3

    ART IS CONSTRUCT
    3.1
    Art
    defamiliarizes
    3.2
    Art
    foregrounds
    social forces
    3.3
    Art has its
    own mode of
    production
    4

    ART HAS SOCIAL IMPORT


    4.1
    Art is value-
    laden
    “
    …break away from the domination
    of the globalizing Western
    aesthetic tradition

    All …suppressed voices,


    discourses, expressions should be
    recognized and brought to the
    fore in our studies.
    “
    constitute themselves as
    Subjects and active agents
    to be able to carry out the
    liberating enterprise
    “
    …assum[e] the Filipino
    point of view…

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