1. The author mentions that issue-oriented artists do not want to limit their art to aesthetic matters. They feel that if they did so, their work will become a distraction and will not target the pressing problems. They think that a person’s vision rules his perspective. Their target is to influence people through their work. The author describes Richard Misrach’s photo Submerged Lamppost, the Salton Sea as issue-oriented Art that expresses the silent and ironic beauty of California. Similarly, Thomas Hirschhorn, the Swiss-born artist picked the issue of the Iraq war. The author says that the people who point out the problems of racism and class bias through their art are issue-oriented artists.