Theodor Adorno's Concept of Art as Lighthearted and Liberatory by Prof.Emanuel L. Paparella “The prologue to Shiller’s Wallenstein ends with the line, “Ernst ist das Leben, heiter ist die Kunst”—life is serious, art is lighthearted. It is modeled on a line from Ovid’s Tristia: "Vita verecunda est, Mus