Hitler was right about three things: the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles, the need for the Volkswagen Beetle, and the degeneracy of Modern Art. The ideas behind modernism, postmodernism and conceptualism in art are not just wrong, they are pathological.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Dereliction of Beauty
Much modern Western art is unbeautiful, often self-consciously so. Are there sound reasons for neglecting the previously popular - indeed, near universal - ambition of making every work as beautiful as it possibly could be made?
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