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