The Art We Deserve

The ART WE DESERVE is an film essay by Richard Cork about the gulf between minority art and mass culture Examining the publics preference for bland mass reproduction pictures which are traditional in style and look nice the modern artists tendency to create an insular inwardlooking art for an educated elite and the medias unwillingness to take modern art seriously the film argues that the sense of alienation between artist and the public is largely the result of a classdivided society