Do we want an LDS Bard?
I hear Mormon artists talk all the time about President Spencer W. Kimball's call for Mormon Shakespeares and Goethes and Wagners and Michelangelos.
I hear some of them moaning that we don't have such great artists in the LDS Church because the audience is not smart enough to recognize them.
Others say that we might already have them, but only time will tell.
Still others claim that artists can't achieve greatness while living by the rules of a morally "oppressive" society. Or that great art always offends and attacks the surrounding culture so that the church will always regard it as a threat.
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