A talk by the theatre critic Robert Brustein on the state of American arts and culture, the duties of critics, and other matters, in Partisan Review:




http://www.partisanreview.org/archive/2002...4/Brustein.html

Thank you for this link. Here is art for arts sake, truth is beauty, etc., from one of the last banner carrier's of the old New York School (Lionel Trilling, et. al.), former director of the American Rep. Theater at Harvard, and longtime dean of the Yale School of Drama. It's a spirited lecture.