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| From a daguerreotype of 1847, National Portrait Gallery, from Wikimedia Commons. |
As usual, there were a ton of artists and musicians at the political conventions this year.
What, they only had two thousand pounds of artists and musicians? Somewhere between ten and twenty individuals, depending on the gender mix? At both of them put together? That seems low. (I realize Brooks, being a literary man, is using some fancy rhetorical technique here, probably the figure of litotes, or understatement, and what he actually means is "rather a lot".)
And that raises some questions. How much should artists get involved in politics? How can artists best promote social change?
