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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Ayn Rand’s Distinctive View of Romantic Art
Description: In this episode of New Ideal, Sam Weaver interviews Harry Binswanger and Shoshana Milgram about the Romantic movement in art and Ayn Rand’s unique account of it. They also discuss an upcoming conference, Resurrecting Romanticism, which will focus on Romanticism in music and the visual arts.
Among the topics covered:
The value of learning about Rand’s philosophy of art;
A brief summary of Rand’s account of why we need art;
The unique value of Romantic art’s portrayal of volition and values;
Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version and the stories of O. Henry as examples of Romantic l...