art
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The true artists of our times undertake the heroic fight against mediocrity and mean values; in case of their defeat art in its most essential sense will die out. And when art dies, human spirit relapses into decline and the world goes back to barbarity. The crisis in art is the reflection of the spiritual crisis in our times, the times marked by the technological achievements of the so-called second Industrial Revolution; we can say that not only art but life itself is imperiled by the destructive forces of the human race; the ethical forces of the human race may turn out to be much weaker that the forces liberated by its genius of knowledge.