In honouring Dylan, the Nobel Prize judges have made a category error

Jen WEBB

In honouring Dylan, the Nobel Prize judges have made a category error

Jen WEBB

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In 1920, Rudyard Kipling (Nobel Prize in Literature 1907), published The Conundrum of the Workshops. This poem about review culture features the Devil as “first, most dread” critic who responds to human creative outputs with: “it’s pretty, but is it art?”, a review that hurls the makers into confusion, rivalry and anguish. What could be worse, for an artist, than to discover that what you were making is not art after all?

Original language	English
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 14 Oct 2016

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