/lit/ - Literature

That documentary is bananas. I love how Scruton mentions greek and roman art (protip: it's not art in the same sense we use it), ignores pre-gothic painting while highlighting it's achitecture, pretends anything outside the west (even the Byzantine, which was somewhat close and yet more varied than ours), pretends there is a overaching concept of "Art" that goes from cave paintings to Damien Hirst and fails to ignore all the theorists (Danto, Belting, Flusser, even Adorno) who agree that art as the narrative started in Renaissance ended / sublimated with modernism.

Really, you can clearly see this shit is made for people who have no interest to learn about art whatsoever and yet feel like they're able to pass on judgements about it. Then again, to claim modernism (also, he calls conteomporary art modern, disregarding the connotations the word "modern" have in art history, a huge pet peeve of mine) destroyed beauty when there's stuff like Ulysses or pic related produced within modernism ideals.

Modernism (and it's successors) didn't "destroy beauty" (that's impossible), they merely found ways to work withing multiple ideas of beauty or not to work with it at all (which isn't wrong either, any reading on vanguard theory will explain the will to bring art back to life)