The Dehumanization of Art by Ortega y Gasset | 📕 Book review
Magnus Vanebo, Sebastian Salvo, and Jan-Ove Tuv sit down to discuss the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset’s essay “The Dehumanization of Art”.
Topics covered in this conversation:
- The problem of pathos in literature and paintings
- Salvo: “This stinks of Kant and Hegel!”
- An art for the select few (screw the proletariat!)
- The window metaphor: seeing “beyond the illusion”
- The modern imperative: Bow to your time
- Purity conveyed in emotional language
- Vanebo on modern art as a jest
- How romanticism dulls the mind
- The sentimentality of the idea of the select few
- Gasset´s greatest compliment to modern art
- The artist´s approach should not be serious
- Was Gasset “Woke”?
- “Girls, women, and old men should step aside”
- Eradicating personal sentiments from music
- Art is like chimney smoke
- Mallarmé´s poetry
- A cult of death
- All great periods «dehumanized» what they made
- A summary of what modern art is
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