• Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist 1933-2004
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1. embarrassing
2. terrible
3. formerly
4. shocking
5. painful
6. changes

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. by : Susan Sontag

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