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Just the lines, the image, and the moment they illuminate together. https://t.co/U9KeZPfdsG
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7/ We wrote a 6-part series tracing this entire thread, from the Taichu Reform to SIX LINES. sixlines.online/en/blog/series…
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Scruton's introduction to his 2009 BBC documentary Why Beauty Matters t.co/hixVDWObcW.
"At any time between 1750 and 1930, if you asked educated people to describe the aim of poetry, art or music, they would have replied 'beauty'. And, if you had asked for the point of that, you would have learned that beauty is a value, as important as truth and goodness.
Then, in the 20th century, beauty stopped being important. Art increasingly aimed to disturb and to break moral taboos. It was not beauty, but originality, however achieved, and at whatever moral cost, that won the prizes.
Not only has art made a cult of ugliness. Architecture too has become soulless and sterile. And it is not just our physical surroundings that have become ugly. Our language, our music, and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centred, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives. One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is 'me': my profits, my desires, my pleasures. And art has nothing to say in response to this, except 'Yeah, go for it!'
I think we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that with it we will lose the meaning of life."
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