{"product_id":"the-decline-and-fall-of-western-art-paperback","title":"The Decline and Fall of Western Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrendan M. P. Heard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern art is best described as a psychological disease, the goal of which is nothing less than the total destruction of art - which it has more or less successfully done. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eModern art is not a natural evolution of art, but a kind of manufactured break from tradition, borne from a hubris and bias towards historical values. People today suffer a subconscious price for the suffocation and confusion of our ugly art galleries and cityscapes, standing in the long shadows cast by meaningless, obtuse shapes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContrary to what we have been taught, that abstraction in art progressed from Romanticism (like a frog in the slow-boiling pot) there is instead an easily discernible point where the tradition was broken, and the modern imposed itself. These are opposing world-views at war with one another and have little to do with progress or technology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe day the abstract scribbling manufactured its own language, a philosophy was born whose aim was to destroy true art, forever.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457897545981,"sku":"9781720557852","price":33.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/SmhRalF5Mm8venV6K3JmR0hrZ2pXZz09.webp?v=1777248765","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-decline-and-fall-of-western-art-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}