No, I mean the responsibility of art, I think, to try to be equal to the world.

因为我认为艺术的责任，是与世界相媲美。

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Or, you cycle through all the great art museums in the world and you say, "Yeah, I've seen these Picassos.

或者你游遍各地艺术馆,你会说“是的，我见过毕加索风格的画。

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And I'm just wondering how you respond to that, what is the response of you, because of the pain of the world, and because somehow it is irresponsible to put out art that is not beautiful.

我想知道，您的回应是什么，您对这种观点怎么看，因为我们身边有太多的痛苦,而摒弃那些不美丽的艺术又有些不负责任。

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Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

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Typically, we speak of the Bronze Age, the Mycenaean Period and so on, followed by the Dark Ages, but after that,you started having refined terms which derive actually from the world of the history of art.

通常,我们会说,青铜时代,迈锡尼文明时代,等等,之后是黑暗时代,但是在那之后,开始有精确的术语来界定时代,这些术语实际上源于艺术史的领域

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