Sir Roger Scruton - ART TODAY

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As an artist I've always appreciated the work of Sir Roger Scruton, especially his endeavors surrounding art & music. His ability to describe the ephemeral recesses the soul and it's relationship to Beauty is astounding. His death is a devastating blow, but luckily he's left us with plenty of thought-provoking work. In the making of a video on Sir Roger Scruton, I've repeatedly abandoned it. I will just let him speak in his own words, which are so much more effective than anything I could possibly add. I've simply added some personal recommendations of his that I've particularly enjoyed. WEBSITE: http://bitly.ws/nSaK SUBSTACK: http://bitly.ws/nSaH INSTAGRAM: http://bitly.ws/nSay #rogerscruton #beauty #modernart From Wikipedia: Scruton was trained in analytic philosophy, although he was drawn to other traditions. "I remain struck by the thin and withered countenance that philosophy quickly assumes," he wrote in 2012, "when it wanders away from art and literature, and I cannot open a journal like Mind or The Philosophical Review without experiencing an immediate sinking of the heart, like opening a door into a morgue."[119] He specialised in aesthetics throughout his career. From 1971 to 1992 he taught aesthetics at Birkbeck College. His PhD thesis formed the basis of his first book, Art and Imagination (1974), in which he argued that "what demarcates aesthetic interest from other sorts is that it involves the appreciation of something for its own sake".[120][121] He subsequently published The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979), The Aesthetic Understanding (1983), The Aesthetics of Music (1997),[122] and Beauty (2010). In 2008 a two-day conference was held at Durham University to assess his impact in the field,[123] and in 2012 a collection of essays, Scruton's Aesthetics, edited by Andy Hamilton and Nick Zangwill, was published by Palgrave Macmillan.[124] In an Intelligence Squared debate in March 2009, Scruton (seconding historian David Starkey) proposed the motion: "Britain has become indifferent to beauty", and held an image of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus next to one of the supermodel Kate Moss.[125] Later that year he wrote and presented a BBC Two documentary, Why Beauty Matters, in which he argued that beauty should be restored to its traditional position in art, architecture and music.[126] He wrote that he had received "more than 500 e-mails from viewers, all but one saying, 'Thank Heavens someone is saying what needs to be said.'"[127] In 2018 he argued that a belief in God makes for more beautiful architecture: "Who can doubt, on visiting Venice, that this abundant flower of aesthetic endeavor was rooted in faith and watered by penitential tears? Surely, if we want to build settlements today we should heed the lesson of Venice. We should begin always with an act of consecration, since we thereby put down the real roots of a community."