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Today I was looking for alternative news outlets, and I came a link to the dated article, Museum [The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center] Proposes Melting Lee Statue to Make New Artwork, Oct. 21, 2021, Bloomberg, US edition. Which piqued my interest for one reason: as a variation on the postmodern project—destroying an artwork …
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Philosopher Stephen Hicks offers three hypotheses on school shooters here: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2022/05/27/school-shooters-three-hypotheses/ Hicks makes two interesting observations: “The school shooters are near-but not-quite total nihilists who feel empty except for despair and hate …” and in their minds “the destruction of the individuals involved is generic and impersonal.” With those thoughts lets think about postmodern art. …
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Another view from Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica Art has been ruthlessly attacked by postmodernism for the last century with the aim to reduce you to a moron. Specifically to cut you off from art, your senses, your heart, and your intelligence. Their road map is to dump senseless shit on you, like Duchamp’s Urinal …
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Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule,seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste,than a song of a human being. — Immanuel Kant A very tough slough of research, over very familiar territory, on Kant’s Beauty and the Sublime, and examination of his means of Taste and …
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I was relieved that my article Pandora’s Box Part III was published in the Free Radical (magazine and online) in 2002, while this Scruton publication was released in November 2009.
30,000 years before there was religion, before there was writing, and 33,000 years before philosophy there was visual art—the first and most important step in humankind’s evolution. With the pull and roots so deep anyone touched with the art gift feels a calling that only death can extinguish. It is a sacred calling holding the weight of humanity’s wellbeing and hope.
Michael Newberry’s presentation of the contrast between insanely praised postmodern artists with the most innovative and forward looking figurative artists practicing right now.
Isn’t it the height of pretentiousness when a visual artist throws way visual perception and expects the audience, who have mastered visual perception, to contemplate their mind-numbing, nonsensical works?!
Postmodern art history is rife with short-lived movements–someone tries to reduce art to scratches, to emptiness, or to Vaseline. It is like a species that doesn’t have enough code to evolve and consequently dies.
Michael Newberry 