Art, tasteful æsthetics, high culture, & standards have all but vanished from the modern world. An ancient tradition has been carelessly discarded and is close to being lost forever. Why is this? Why were beauty values important to our ancestors? What was their philosophy of art, and what is ours? Can we bring back real art?
Author(s): Brendan M.P. Heard
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 322
Introduction
1: Art has been taken from us
2: Modernist art is a weapon
PART 1: What is Western art?
1: Hellenistic origins of Western art
2: Platonic Forms and the Golden Ratio
PART 2: How art has declined
Art in decline, a tripartite assailment
I: The philosophy of Modernism
1: Understanding Artspeak
2: Painting
3: The origins of Modernism
4: A truthful time line of art history
5: Modernism: What is it really?
6: Modernist movements since Expressionism
7: Turner Prize: Conceptualist asylum
8: The importance of architecture
II: The rise of materialism and the loss of idealism
1: The average person has lost touch with art
2. Rise of political correctness
3: The lie of equality
4: Relativism: Marxist buzzwords as closed tautology
5: Who wants to fight for a Modernist world?
6: Art school - The fantastic joke
7: Feminism and education
III: Industrialization, and corporate mass production
1: Art and science
2: Digital art, realism, photography & cinema
PART 3: The path back to a healthy art
1: Action versus work in a technological age
2. The power of myth
3. Spirituality and primordial tradition: Western
religion and the plane of perfect reason
4: Hierarchical industrialization
5: Form and function: the Kaiser and Barnett Newman
6. Return to the guild system
7: Return to the atelier method
Concluding Remarks
1: Twilight of the Western arts
2: Can we halt decline?
3: The river
