It has become commonplace to assert that artistic beauty is relative existing only in the eye of the beholder. This abused statement has become almost a parody in our modern age, as everything we are told, from a toilet bowl, to random ink splattering, to even pornography or the drinking of blood… becomes (we are told) art. With this, we are told that everything- regardless of its ugliness, has claim to the title ‘Beauty’, while anyone questioning the authority of this relativistic view labelled ‘heretics’, ‘authoritarians’ devoid of ‘sophistication’ with views that should not be tolerated in today’s liberal order.
I was just reading your Shelley quote on the RTF "About" page. I listened to the episode on Ben Franklin last night and the one on He Who Controls the Past. I'm learning a lot AND getting a lot of cooking done while listening ;-)
I also found your article on the CIA and abstract art, which I'll be talking about in my episode on you and Cynthia, which I'm aiming to get out later today.
I was just reading your Shelley quote on the RTF "About" page. I listened to the episode on Ben Franklin last night and the one on He Who Controls the Past. I'm learning a lot AND getting a lot of cooking done while listening ;-)
I also found your article on the CIA and abstract art, which I'll be talking about in my episode on you and Cynthia, which I'm aiming to get out later today.