Bad Art

There is Good Art, so it logically follows that there is is Bad Art. There is even art that is bad for you, although both "art" and "bad" are contingent upon who "you" are. If art moves us, then it can move us badly. There is, however, no "evil" art. Only Nazis and fundamentalists think otherwise. And there is no such thing as "high" or "low" art, a distinction generated by the mass media to begin with. Joyce was as comfortable with advertising as he was with Aquinas, but he wouldn't have said they were the same thing or that they had the same value.