Hey :) Do you have knowledge about palaces or noble houses like Wollaton Hall? Many beautiful designs

A very basic observation: art does NOT progress to something. Artists let themselves be stimulated and inspired by other works of art, they interpret them according to their personal inclinations, and they may want to improve on something in terms of what they feel is quality, but this is something different from progress. It is a philosophical misunderstanding. Danto looked at art history as a line from past into the future. With hindsight, all kinds of patterns may be noticed, but that does not mean that artists at the time did consciously follow this or that pattern, aware of their place in history. All of that is a projection a posteriori, and open to very different interpretations. In art, there is only progressiveness in terms of quality (which is subjective and cannot be measured), and in terms of availability of means. But Picasso did not progress from Leonardo, and Duchamp is not progress on Vermeer or Degas.

8:50 hmm then we are the ones who turned cave drawings into art through the time? Perhaps people who did them didn’t perceive them as art but rather a documentation, like a sign on the street this days. But then in 21st century the sign in the street can also be turned into an art piece. So everything and nothing is art at the same time. But why do we get contemplated by the theatre or Renoir art piece, but don’t experience the same feeling on the way to work passing the road sign ? Because it doesn’t disturb our visual and brain receptors. So probably my conclusion is that some art is self-sufficient, like a great 19th century painting even if it is located in a storage room with a bunch of stuff around, or a great poem even if it’s written on a piece of toilet paper. other art like a road sign needs additional contexts and to which will support it like a text, surroundings, good light and framing and nice space it’s displayed in. Just writing my thoughts mid through video

wow this is very good and highly informative. i really appreciated how you explained such a complicated topic in a clear manner. Great work!

Wow wow wow 😮 thank you for sharing.

The artist is genius, he is trying to prove that the world is stupid. Nonetheless the middle finger art.

Thank you ❤

i always wondered why the school was called Hailsham - i just discovered that the town of Hailsham is famous for livestock markets

the part about reading the caption about the mom being gone 10 years really gets me everytime, and made me realize this isnt just a funny song

94 books...damn it, I managed about 15. Need to work on that)

Always love your end of the year reviews. Great recommendations!

Enjoyed this review! It introduced me to books I had not known about. What sources do you use to select the books you read?

I have never encountered your content until today, and I like it. I have had this idea for a little while that I actually am currently attempting to make a video on (my first video ever actually). I think art is generally created idealistically by the artist, but "consumed" pragmatically by the people who view it. like, when an artist creates a painting let's say, the artist is attempting to recreate something that exists only in their own mind. they take the experiences and knowledge that they have and use that to make something that matches that idea as closely as possible. however, when someone who is not the artist observes or interacts with that same piece of art, they might be able to understand what the original artist was going for, but it's impossible to actually fully understand it from the point of view of the artist. people will take their own ideas and feelings and place some of them into the art. this allows the observer to find new meaning in the art piece that wasn't necessarily intended by the artist. and since everyone has their own frame of reference, this interpretation changes from person to person.

Thank you... Your reviews are short but as insightful as they are very helpful!

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Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes were the end of nothing. If anything ended in the 1960s, it was philosophy.

This is brilliant

Dear Sir, Im a senior man whose native language is not English, though 90% of my life I spoke and read English books. In Europe... I am a devoted follower of your online lectures. At present Im editing the transcript of this very interesting video, on Pragmatism Aesthetic. Not the first time I do this. The main reason is that you talk very fast and you make many points which look at what you are speaking of, from different perspectives that I have ever considered (if at all). The only way I discovered to download the transcript is via some "google tricks" and downloading the closed captions. Unfortunately, those paste in google docs as one paragraph. If memory serves me, I once read a novel by Reinaldo Arenas, composed entirely as one paragraph. Delirious and beautiful but that's fiction. I am trying to understand (!) your lecture. The CC approximates quite well your words but at times fails at identifying the names of people you mention. Maybe AI/CC types the teleprompters for politicians. That being said, is there a way you could make available the text you read while recording the video? I suppose it's a text because if you spoke freely during recording, I would denounce you as non human, from a different planet. Do you publish or intend to publish your lectures? Sincerely, Mon

Art is just a tax scheme

This is fascinating. Thank you for the video.

Who is watching this in 2024

modern art is tax evasion.

THIS IS SO GOOD!

I think i live in a building made of brick plunder from the city of plunder, and yes, forever did the people here plunder, I plunder the beast every week. Venece spoke with the beast and built a copy here, it was destroyed the next year, and the towers fell, there's by suprise, ours first and on purpose, with there copy, scedued before the building began. The 4 houses bridge in Paris had a contempory to it on the clock.

So did they steel artifacts because not only was that the point of the church, made of stolen parts, but also because they figured constatanopal was going to fall to islam, so they like, well, better the church have this stuff, so this may of been to repay and save the artifacts, save, not steel.

Thank you for this great explanation! 🙏

Black artists are brilliant!

As always, your laying out of this content is a work of art in its own right - thankyou so much for another exquisitely crafted exploration. Its arrival is beautifully timed for me, having just opened a new art gallery focused on conversations with visitors about the origins of meaning in their lives. In the inaugural exhibition, each of the pictures is a prop to start and fuel these conversations. You have given me a framework to further open every facet of content for deeper discussion with visitors. Thankyou so much - 🌼

"This song is nearly a decade old" well that's not so bad *video five years old* oh well in that case I'm just going to crawl in a hole

Art as classically defined may have died, but creativity has not. While for some it is theoretically possible for an algorithm to eventually write lines that are indistinguishable from poetry, the lines would not be poetry because they did not arise from a biologically embodied human consciousness, a soul if you will. As I write this, I am hearing Debussy's "Clair de Lune" in my mind. I cannot imagine such exquisite sound being produced by an algorithm any more than I can imagine a million monkeys at keyboards producing Hamlet. (I'd bet on the monkeys before the algorithm.) That wild-eyed programmers can postulate machines producing art is a testament not the potential of programs to calculate but to the ability of the programmers to fantasize. The end of art will be the end of humanity, and the end of humanity will be the end of art.

❤ John Dewey! ❤ I wish I'd made this video. It's spot on. (And it's so nice to see philosophical pragmatism getting some love.)

I loved this video! Full disclosure, I do lean more towards Platonism personally (although still like art), but Dewey’s arguments/ideas are very compelling. The thing that immediately springs to mind when it comes to museums changing the meaning of art is the host of Egyptian artworks in museums all over the world. To a visitor, they might represent imperial conquest of a foreign land, or even the remains of a once great but proud civilization that collapsed under the weight of its own hubris. In reality, a lot of Egyptian art the depicted people or gods served as literal repositories for the Ka (a part of the soul) of a person or deity. The Egyptians believed that the Ka physically resided in both artistic images and even written names, and used them as anchorpoints in the mortal world. By removing art from a person’s tomb, you were also taking their Ka away from its home, and it would then be unable to reunite with the Ba (another part of the soul) which usually traversed the Duat.

Loved this!

In the Seven Lamps Of Architecture, the famous 19th century English architecture Critic, John Ruskin believed that any good piece of architecture should be constructed by the people for whom it will eventually serve. In England, he therefore advocated Gothic architecture as a distinctly English style, where the artistic merit of the building was made manifest, through the (often anonymous and locally situated in the area) labour of those who built it. This act in turn made the building valuable to the society for whom the building was constructed. Obviously, this does not happen anymore... But I think the point he makes is not that dissimilar to points made about the Milan Cathedral, another Gothic building. Albeit, in a different part of the world!

Great video. Thanks for putting it together!

You are a valuable human.

It feels to me that public spaces created in my life time are grey, lifeless, commercial zones. It might not be so bad in urban environments, but the balance of my country is a long road populated by box stores, gas stations, car dealerships, banks, and a few government structures. I saw brutalism, it sure feels like its been replaced by borelism. I've done residential and commercial construction and the majority of the money is going to McMansions decorated by Hobby Lobby. I see a kitchen going viral and it is usually a unique, romantic "handcrafted" image generated by AI. Pisses me off that I spent my life working wood, building "pretty" kitchens and very rarely participated in anything interesting. 95% was computer generated cookie cutter designs some salesperson created that will be ripped out in ten years to be remodeled. Imagine tearing down a down a cathedral every ten years as fashion dictates. Then I go into a museum and every thing needs an explanation. Why does the blueish square cost a 1/4 million? It really is the emperor's new clothes. How do those rectangles cause people to cry? I think it is a cult.

That was great, thanks.

Dude I love your videos, been watching for years! I am so happy you keep making them. I learn so much ♥️

This knowledge saved my marriage

thanks for communicating dewey's ideas about art, i feel i encountered them somewhere before (maybe 'the michael brooks show') and you did an amazing job connecting my memories with your clarity. his theory speaks to our time very well, where art is so deeply tied to capital, and our understanding of how it was in the past has been heavily obfuscated and distorted in defense of capitalism.

If you had to choose one book from those you referenced for folks who'd like to follow up on these ideas, which would it be?

really phenomonal video, thank you!

This whole video was an aesthetic experience

Thank you for this video!

This was brilliant - exatcly what I was looking for ...

Great Video. It makes me think of Centennial Park in Queens. The Art there was meant to express social political themes for the world exhibitions, but if you watch closely you can see people today enjoy and appreciate it in a totally different way than was intended. What repulses me may bring joy to another that does not have the baggage of the past to hang upon the work.

Is it not ironic that when Italy became a Republic, it moved Michelangelo's David from a piazza into an art gallery?