On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:55 AM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Maybe I was disturbed because I recently watched a documentary about > Hitler's taste in art and Scruton's similarity to that old Nazi kinda > creeped me out. Well I was gonna recite that old platitude about Hitler liking dogs, but Platt beat me to it with one about beer. dmb continues:The modernist painting produced in Austria and Germany > "between the wars" was exactly the kind of stuff Hitler hated too. He was > into the Rockwellian "fugurative painting" that competed with it. In fact, > I'd characterize Scruton's example (below) as Hallmarky schmaltz. And the > whole idea that painter are supposed to uphold social moral codes strikes me > as quite wrong, reactionary and even a bit medieval. I didn't see the point made that painters were supposed to uphold social moral codes. I saw the point made that perhaps painters might do more than attack social moral codes. Any given painter has a certain orientation toward society; when the only critically acceptable orientation is sociopathic, then that's a censorship problem as relevant to society's evolution as decreeing "Normal Rockwell Value Only". > As I see it, Platt's recommendation just shows that he has a fascist's > taste in art. > You mean, like this below? > The table has > > become a symbol of homecoming, of the extended arms of the universal > mother, > > inviting her children in.. All our attempts to make our surroundings look > right—through > > decorating, arranging, creating—are attempts to extend a welcome to > > ourselves and to those whom we love. > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > -- ------------ Doing Good IS Being ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
