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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
One thought that's popped into my head, and I'd like help refining...
An artists class only developed when society itself was strong enough with respect to provision of food/shelter/security to allow those people (artists) to NOT have to work on the farm/hunt/gather for the majority of their waking hours. Without society, artists could not exist in their current form.
Does this have any relevance to today's world?
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Many here argue otherwise. They claim artist will always create art regardless of whether they do it for money etc. and that even without the protection of art afforded by our current laws we'd still have great literature and art.