Arthur Danto argues that people should not talk about what they do not know, art in particular. However, this leaves out a gigantic population of people, and basically says that people are not allowed to enjoy things if they don't have a certain base of knowledge. This is a very pretentious view, and can be argued against in many different ways. There are obviously some people who agree with this, but if the world were to accept that only educated people were allowed to talk about art, then either one of two things would happen.
1. people would decide it isn't worth the effort, and they would get mad
2. people would decide they would have to become extremely educated in art they would stop being interested in other things just so they could appreciate art
Obviously these are not the only two scenarios, but they definitely show the two extremes of what could happen.
I guess my question for Danto would be: how much do you really have to know before you can talk about art?
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