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276 - The End Of Desacrilization in Art

The Symbolic World

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The Renaissance and the Man-Arism

In the 20th century, culture becomes dialectic to a point where it's almost a caricature. And so of course in these oppositions or in this dialectic, you find the coming about of high art and low art. The difference between something meant to be purely aesthetic and then something which is meant to be functional. Think of how, how boring the industrial objects are and then think of how at the same time there is the fetishization of the art object.

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