Is It All Right For True Art To Crack A Smile?

“(I)s there a place for humour in art? … Is it even morally justifiable, in the current climate, to be anything less than furious? We are trained, both as viewers and as consumers, to accept only the grave and magisterial as great. And while Romantic sturm und drang has fallen from favour … the respect accorded the playful, the determinedly slight, has dropped even further.”