Philosopher Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives.
In the 20th century, Scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert.
Using the thoughts of philosophers from Plato to Kant, and by talking to artists Michael Craig-Martin and Alexander Stoddart, Scruton analyses where art went wrong and presents his own impassioned case for restoring beauty to its traditional position at the centre of our civilisation.
Part of the BBC2 Modern Beauty Season.
- Broadcast on:
- BBC Two, 9:00pm Saturday 28th November 2009
- Duration:
- 60 minutes
- Available until:
- 9:59pm Saturday 5th December 2009
- Beauty is a value, as important as truth and honest
- Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q, 1919
- Art increasingly aim to distrube and to break moral taboos. It was not beauty but originality how ever achieved and at what ever moral cost that the one to win the prizes.
- Mark Wallinger, Sleeper, 2004
- Not only has art has made ugly but also architecture have been made ugly.
- Sarah Lucas, Got a Salmon on (prawn) 1994
- Not only art, but our language our music and our manners are increasingly obnoxious self-centred and offensive. As though beauty and goodnesshav eno real place in our lifes
- "Jake and Dinos Chapman" Zygotic Acceleration, Biogenetic Desublimated, Libdinal model 1995
- One word is written large on these ugly things and that word is me. My prophets, my desire, my pleasure and art has nothing to say to response to this, except "yeah go for it!"
- Art needs creativity, and creativity is about sharing. Its a call to others to see the world as the artist sees it. That is why we find beauty in the naive art of children. Children are not giving us ideas of the place of creativity images, nor are they allowing in uglyness. They're trying to firm the world as they see it. and to share what they feel.
- Maybe people lost their believe in beauty; because they have lost their believe in ideal. There are no value, aside from utilitarian ones. Some thing has a value if it has a use and whats the use of beauty?
- "All art is absolutely useless " wrote Oscar Wilde, (remark as praise) for Wilde beauty was a value higher than usefulness
- People NEED useless things as much as, even more than they need things with a use. Just think whats the use of LOVE, friendship, worship. NONE what so ever. Same goes for beauty.
- Since art is useless it doesnt matter what you see read and listen.
- Adverts capture our eye more than art does, and art tries to capture us like adverts do. By being brass / outrageous.
- the cult of uglyness in the art and the cult of utility in every day life, these 2 cults come together in the modern world of ARCHITECTURE.
- "FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION"
Stop Thinking the way a building does and think instead what a building looks.
Sulivan - If you consider only utility the tings you built will soon be useless.
- Put usefulness first and you'll loose it, put beauty first and it will be used for eternity.
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