Advice from Coco Chanel
“Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.”
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¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo?
¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. La pregunta importante es: ¿Por qué el mundo del arte del siglo XX adoptó lo feo y lo ofensivo? ¿Por qué ha derramado sus energías creativas y su astucia en lo trivial y autoproclamado como sin sentido? Para más artículos en español:
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Jerry Kirkpatrick’s new book
Professor Jerry Kirkpatrick, emeritus professor at California State Polytechnic University, is always worth reading. His new collection of short essays — Applying Principles: Short Essays Based on the Philosophy of Ayn Rand, Economics of Ludwig von Mises, and Psychology of Edith Packer — collects dozens of his short essays on topics ranging from philosophy to
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Cornel West on Howard University’s dropping Classics
Well said by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate, in response to yet another university’s shrinking its vision: “We must be vigilant and draw the distinction between Western civilization and philosophy on the one hand, and Western crimes on the other. The crimes spring from certain philosophies and certain aspects of the civilization, not all of
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Demands of Justice and Demands of Art — Caravaggio edition
You are a law-abiding citizen and a lover of art. You happen to be in a bar in Rome one night in 1506, where you witness a drunken, brawling Caravaggio kill an adversary. The day before, you had visited Caravaggio’s studio. You knew of two of his completed masterpieces, which you admire greatly. And in
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Art’s devolution from Modernist to Postmodernist
Part I of “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond” focused on Modernism’s brutalism, reductionism, and conceptualism — and philosophy’s contributions from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. “By the beginning of the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century intellectual world’s sense of disquiet had become a full-blown anxiety. The artists responded, exploring in their works the implications of
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“From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond,” Part 1 by Stephen Hicks
This lecture was given in New York at the Foundation for the Advancement of Art’s conference. ‘For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the “Isn’t that disgusting” strategy. By that I mean the strategy of pointing out that given works of art are ugly, trivial, or in bad taste,
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Death advocates, Left and Right versions
From the left environmentalists, we get the voluntary human extinction movement. From the religious right, we get the involuntarily human death movement. Left: Right: The two are superficial enemies culturally, yet both are anti-humanist philosophically. For human beings, life is the standard of value; and for healthy humans, life is good. True lovers of humanity
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