Art: Modern, Postmodern, and Beyond: A Brief Overview of Why the Art World Has Become Trivial and A Manifesto

by Stephen Hicks, Michael Newberry

Have you ever been puzzled by the postmodern art shown in contemporary art museums? Or speculated on the motivations of the artists and curators who show it? Or wondered what it says about our contemporary culture—and if there is hope for our future? In Modern, Postmodern, and Beyond, philosopher Stephen Hicks and artist Michael Newberry sift through the seemingly inexplicable aesthetic confusion to arrive at meaningful comprehension of art and its antithesis. With this book you will gain an understanding

• How modernist reduction led to postmodern nihilism

• Why the postmodern experiment is self-defeating

• How understanding postmodern art enables us to remove it from

its favored status and replace it with more substantial art

• How aesthetic ideas matter in shaping flourishing ends

• How being reasonable restores excitement, confidence, and joy in

everything to do with art

This book will give you fundamental aesthetic perspectives and tools to enrich your capacity to evaluate art on emotional, intellectual, and sensory levels, i.e., to engage art as a technician of the soul.

51 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 25, 2021