Peter Kreeft has a new lecture on the beauty of language and Lord of the Rings.
I am not an artist, but one of the problems of the modern arts is that the avant gard type is politicized, so that artists see their calling as one to shock people, not to proclaim beauty. Lileks ironic essay on this is HERE
People have been complaining about modern art since that hack Marcel Duchamp hung some bathroom plumbing and called it sculpture.... These are the values of the West? We must pay for this, and you call it freedom?
Good question. What is Western culture all about these days, anyway? Little but narcissism, lassitude, sneers and muted despair, it seems. No, correct that; it's European/U.S. elite culture that seems unmoored. Standard lowbrow American culture is quite clear about what it likes: snakes on planes, loud cars going around in circles with the occasional airborne detour into the stands, high-quality TV shows, mediocre pop music, naked people without the whole arty pig thing.
Yet beauty is all around us...as a daily check on Ursi will show...
One of her links today is HERE
Enjoy!
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