But she had thought that it was more of an aesthetic than a protest.
And that others I admired, like Twain in that quote, have also been motivated by their aesthetic instincts to protest some of the notions of intellectual property that have been taken too much for granted.
In paintings that he cut holes in and burned with a torch in the early '70s, he implicitly equated the violation of aesthetic norms with sociopolitical protest, but by then such Dada-like provocations were old hat.
The collective formed in 1968 when several artists, Mr. Ferrari among them, staged a series of aesthetic events that were protests on behalf of impoverished sugar workers in the province of Tucumán.
In recent years the songwriters taking on political issues have tended to be older musicians, like Mr. Cooder, 64, who regard political statements as a natural part of popular music; or musicians like Justin Sane, 37, and Mr. Morello, 47, who have made protest music an aesthetic choice.
But that was before protests on environmental, aesthetic and legal grounds and a lawsuit filed in October against the federal agencies and commissions that approved the project.
Its politics have less to do with parties and international relations than with Miéville's belief in aesthetic subversion as a form of protest and insurrection.
He rarely participated in the ideological controversies of Stockhausen, Boulez, Nono, and company; indeed, his "prankster" pieces of the sixties seemed like a protest against the prevailing aesthetic of abstraction.
He remembers Seinfeld's looking askance at him while he protested the network's aesthetic.
The media will likely cover the protest from an array of aesthetic angles, and at certain points it is likely that the protesters will not all have signs facing the same direction.
