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Speaking for myself one of the most “radicalising” experiences of my life was simply looking around a gallery of modern “art” by recent graduates (publicly funded). The experience affirmed to me that there is something deeply wrong with our society and those who rule over us. When you consider the sheer time, money and psychological resources spent on churning out this nihilistic crap you really have to just stand in awe.
Starkey is himself 'extraordinary': With a clarity of structure and communication, he imparts insights into his theme with rich and copious detail drawing together threads from a multitude of related fields. He is at the interface of old books and new ideas. Wonderful on every occasion.
“A modernity that does not dismiss the past, something you might actually want to live for.” These last words express a forward looking conservatism that could stir a nation from its enforced slumber. Starkey here is truly visionary.
Thank you! I saw an early painting by Picasso yesterday, and I could just scream. He was on track to become a second Rembrandt, and instead he became ... something altogether opposite. Catherine Austin Fitts has talked about something very specific that occurred, and this book might say what it was.
Duchamp a 'malign genius' indeed. His painting, Nude Descending a Staircase is superb; he was also a gifted graphic designer. As ever, a great talk, provocative, insightful, and humorous by turn. One small correction: the craft element has gone out of the artist, not their art. Warhol exemplifies this by handing over production to an army of technicians, a practice now so normalized that it barely attracts comment. Damien Hirst's entire career takes this form.
Think he meant personal involvement, or particular investment at hand. Personally I'm so sick and tired of having these twerps, some of whom you mention, considered to be akin to architects who design that others may build. These days the idea seems mostly to consist in the undertaking of remaking small things big things.
I enjoyed this ,as I do all Dr Starkey's provocative lectures,but with the additional insight of a painter, one who went to the R A and knew one of Basil Spence's colleagues. The intellectual vanity of architects and the whole wrong-headed pursuit of post-war architecture have been well documented but still need to be amplified. We have politicians like the Mayor of London determined to deface their cities with a top-down arrogance that recognises nothing of local value or the opinion of the public,as ever we are at the mercy of fools bloated with power. The great irony of the modern movement is how iconoclasm can be welcomed in with the lure of money and by turn, become the orthodoxy. I recommend John Stephens Curl's lectures on UA-cam. Thanks for posting.
As a previous inhabitant, I was very happy to hear you pronounce Cuventry correctly! I rather wish you had mentioned that that other Eliot, George Elliot, located her best novel in Coventry, fictionally called Middlemarch.
I'd love to see DS interview the guy, but fundamentally something tells me that the likely 2-3 sigma gulf in intellect btw the two would be too far a gulf to bridge.
Well in response to a Catholic art school was all about dates and there aren't and I went to Public University where I was shown everything so it was so much more refreshing yet at a Lutheran School it pushed for conservatism and I was also shown Nativity etcetera that I've never seen and Catholics. For instance Mary was shown on a more human level yeah and they talked about nihilism too but I almost wonder if some of this is an agenda. I do think they have something to say as far as making the kids copy my learner versus learning some skills about drawing and not understanding that it was a reaction to something previous something previous when we don't acknowledge that it's called postmodernism
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The best thing about modern art is no-one is forced to look at it. Of course there are those awful modern public monstrosities but they are easily side-stepped
You must give Joshua Reynolds the benefit of the doubt. In his writings about art he was just simply redefining the Greek concept of aesthetics, which is by its very nature quite mystical. Don't blame him for modern art. As for Duchamp, he starts with a Jewish outlook, wordy, cynical and theoretical, and ends as a Jesuit, smiling as he exercises his power to cash in on the fraud which he has inadvertently propagated.
Yes but is it just sentimental and nostalgic? Scruton, approaching his death from a certain distance, described love "as a relationship between dying things". I can't envisage too many Town Planners, much less developers adopting this privately or publicly as any sort of motto -- which is destined to continue to be the bloody shame of it, one definitely should imagine.
If you have been watching carefully and like to search for audiobooks, music and art on YT, you will notice that they have already begun to replace humans altogether. The moment I realized what is starting to happen it gave me chills right down my spine. Right now, the AI creations fall short of what humans are capable of creating, but not by all that much. Soon, they will be better...and then what. What I do find fascinating and not a little bit frightening, is how well the AI's notice and exploit emotional triggers and tend to always appeal to the more baser instincts. I listened to a AI created song last night entitled...Broken Bottleneck Blues, case in point. Go check it out. Glad I'm not a young man, because I'm afraid they are massively screwed.
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Speaking for myself one of the most “radicalising” experiences of my life was simply looking around a gallery of modern “art” by recent graduates (publicly funded). The experience affirmed to me that there is something deeply wrong with our society and those who rule over us. When you consider the sheer time, money and psychological resources spent on churning out this nihilistic crap you really have to just stand in awe.
The worship of ugliness
Modern art seems to be crafted to challenge, insult and unsettle the viewer, and offers little either in technical or creative excellence.
@ exactly it insults the senses, the intellect and the soul all at once.
Starkey is himself 'extraordinary': With a clarity of structure and communication, he imparts insights into his theme with rich and copious detail drawing together threads from a multitude of related fields. He is at the interface of old books and new ideas. Wonderful on every occasion.
Love Starky!
And again Thank you Professor Starkey❤
Best Speaker on the Net
He is up there with Mr Bowden certainly
❤ Medieval architects built to the Glory of God (so we don't even know who they were). Modern ones build to be noticed.
“A modernity that does not dismiss the past, something you might actually want to live for.” These last words express a forward looking conservatism that could stir a nation from its enforced slumber. Starkey here is truly visionary.
What a splendid fellow , Professor David Starkey is .
Absolutely Love listening to this extraordinary man ❤
I would recommend reading H. R. Rookmaker “Modern Art and the Death of a Culture” first published 55 years ago.
Thank you! I saw an early painting by Picasso yesterday, and I could just scream. He was on track to become a second Rembrandt, and instead he became ... something altogether opposite. Catherine Austin Fitts has talked about something very specific that occurred, and this book might say what it was.
Duchamp a 'malign genius' indeed. His painting, Nude Descending a Staircase is superb; he was also a gifted graphic designer. As ever, a great talk, provocative, insightful, and humorous by turn.
One small correction: the craft element has gone out of the artist, not their art. Warhol exemplifies this by handing over production to an army of technicians, a practice now so normalized that it barely attracts comment. Damien Hirst's entire career takes this form.
Think he meant personal involvement, or particular investment at hand.
Personally I'm so sick and tired of having these twerps, some of whom you mention, considered to be akin to architects who design that others may build. These days the idea seems mostly to consist in the undertaking of remaking small things big things.
Mr Starkey please go on an interview with my friend Stefan Tompson who runs visegrad 24! He interviewed Dominic Tarczyński too. Great journalist.
I enjoyed this ,as I do all Dr Starkey's provocative lectures,but with the additional insight of a painter, one who went to the R A and knew one of Basil Spence's colleagues.
The intellectual vanity of architects and the whole wrong-headed pursuit of post-war architecture have been well documented but still need to be amplified. We have politicians like the Mayor of London determined to deface their cities with a top-down arrogance that recognises nothing of local value or the opinion of the public,as ever we are at the mercy of fools bloated with power.
The great irony of the modern movement is how iconoclasm can be welcomed in with the lure of money and by turn, become the orthodoxy.
I recommend John Stephens Curl's lectures on UA-cam. Thanks for posting.
Thank you, Dr. Starkey!
As a previous inhabitant, I was very happy to hear you pronounce Cuventry correctly! I rather wish you had mentioned that that other Eliot, George Elliot, located her best novel in Coventry, fictionally called Middlemarch.
Well done.
The War on Beauty.
You’re a beautiful literary and historical critic. As well as a philosopher if all of that I am allowed to say
Please come to Bali Mr.Starkey😊
Shock art is just evil. At best it is no talent jealousy in my opinion
Culture is downstream from race.
Take a look at the 'national treasure' Tracy Emin's work', it exemplifies what 'art' has become, conceptual claptrap.
I can't help wondering which of the two drinkers will finish his pint first.
Free Tommy Robinson. please.
Here here, however Starmer won't listen to someone of Dr David Starky's intellect.
No thanks…..he’s a thug, a liar and a habitual criminal 😊
Ok, but only because you asked nicely.
I'd love to see DS interview the guy, but fundamentally something tells me that the likely 2-3 sigma gulf in intellect btw the two would be too far a gulf to bridge.
& Free Palestine
...personally, I think it's overpriced!
Well in response to a Catholic art school was all about dates and there aren't and I went to Public University where I was shown everything so it was so much more refreshing yet at a Lutheran School it pushed for conservatism and I was also shown Nativity etcetera that I've never seen and Catholics. For instance Mary was shown on a more human level yeah and they talked about nihilism too but I almost wonder if some of this is an agenda. I do think they have something to say as far as making the kids copy my learner versus learning some skills about drawing and not understanding that it was a reaction to something previous something previous when we don't acknowledge that it's called postmodernism
The best thing about modern art is no-one is forced to look at it. Of course there are those awful modern public monstrosities but they are easily side-stepped
You must give Joshua Reynolds the benefit of the doubt. In his writings about art he was just simply redefining the Greek concept of aesthetics, which is by its very nature quite mystical. Don't blame him for modern art.
As for Duchamp, he starts with a Jewish outlook, wordy, cynical and theoretical, and ends as a Jesuit, smiling as he exercises his power to cash in on the fraud which he has inadvertently propagated.
The Shock of the New just becomes shocking.
Yes but is it just sentimental and nostalgic?
Scruton, approaching his death from a certain distance, described love "as a relationship between dying things". I can't envisage too many Town Planners, much less developers adopting this privately or publicly as any sort of motto -- which is destined to continue to be the bloody shame of it, one definitely should imagine.
what about Dali?
Dali was really very conventional, only he didn`t believe in it.
If you have been watching carefully and like to search for audiobooks, music and art on YT, you will notice that they have already begun to replace humans altogether. The moment I realized what is starting to happen it gave me chills right down my spine. Right now, the AI creations fall short of what humans are capable of creating, but not by all that much. Soon, they will be better...and then what. What I do find fascinating and not a little bit frightening, is how well the AI's notice and exploit emotional triggers and tend to always appeal to the more baser instincts. I listened to a AI created song last night entitled...Broken Bottleneck Blues, case in point. Go check it out. Glad I'm not a young man, because I'm afraid they are massively screwed.
It's fake and comes across as entertainment not real or human to people who didn't write it - that being mostly boys and their idea of real.
All the moral authority of a stick bundle fella. JMJ
David Starkey is one of the most inspiring and brilliant minds that I know of today. Thank you for your wishes.❤
Starkey is getting spastic! 😆💩
The origins of modern art, indeed. How must The Royal Academy fall, then?
No one seems to like intellectuals.
Moses and Abraham forbid any graven images, it is therefore problematic to think any Jews owned any art in Nazi Jermany.
In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction...?
Modern Art (at least before Pollock) was good. Its Contemporary Art thats so tedious.
Free Tommy
Sounds demonic now it's all laid out like this, tbh.
Architecturally, I loathe the Baroque style and Art Deco. Both are hideous.
Young guy makes this unwatchable.
How so?
David is a national treasure. While we’ve men like him, there's hope for England and the western civilisation.
Yes a treasure... Sunken treasure!😛😏
Wow….sold out crowd Starkey 😂