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/381/ Contemporary Art: Inane Spectacle & Pompous Discourse, ft. JJ Charlesworth (Patreon)

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2023-12-19 07:00:05
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2024-07
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On contemporary art.

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?

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Vico1725

Another view, consistent with this is Claire Bishop’s claim that art institutions have become ‘micro-topias’, in both political and a-political forms. I’d suggest her book, Artificial Hells. I wrote about this in a Brief History of Not Touching Art: https://publicthings.substack.com/p/sidebar-a-brief-history-of-not-touching

Blake

I think the part about a certain type of artist turning to witchcraft with various degrees of irony is very interesting, maybe worth doing a separate episode on politics and the occult at some point (Crowley alone is a massive rabbithole). I can see some parallels with the original romantic movement and its connection to the post-1815 reactionary order in Europe.

John O'Riordan

i did pretty good in art class till my teacher told me off one time saying 'you shouldnt do art if you just want to make pretty pictures!'. so i stopped doing art