I would say , in response to your question : "Have we halted another art form because of our expectations?" that I don't think we have halted an art form... but we have halted the appreciation of that art by a wider audience. I think the art/literature is still going to get made or written but it is going to be secluded off in some far off realm of the art world, where it won't become a classic, or even analyzed as would another piece that stayed within social norms.
I think it is interesting that Sontag expresses how we look to our artists to push the boundaries but at the same time (in the case of pornography) cut off a whole section of literature from even being looked at. The novels she talks about should have been considered with the same viewpoint that David Wallace speaks about when accepting that art has the chance to be good or bad, but due to its classification as pornographic it will just be thrown into another bin without the same weighing of qualities.
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