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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /381/ Contemporary Art: Inane Spectacle & Pompous Discourse, ft. JJ Charlesworth
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On contemporary art.
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Critic and editor at Art Review, JJ Charlesworth, joins us to talk about why so much contemporary art is bad. We discuss:
Why is art no longer about beauty?
Are we stuck between art that is either superficial or hyperpolitical?
Why has there been a turn towards the mystical and irrational in art?
How are ideas of the indigenous and the ecological represented in art today?
Is there a romantic revolt against reason and is it new?
Links:
Criticism, Art and Theory in 1970s Britain: The Critical War, JJ Charlesworth
The Return of Magic in Art, JJ C...