Ep. 117: Saving Art
Young Heretics
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What Are Artists Doing?
Art is not just random things that happen to look pretty, but a kind of insight writes this apocryphal story. The fundamental idea about what makes good art is the lynch pin, right? That enables vassari to even tell a story. All the whole notion of art historyt which he's basically inventing in real time, is a theological notion. And it's the same idea that's going to underpin the birth of science,. Because, of course, now we think of science as this aggressively secular force and that just kind of a bunks all supernatural ideas. But it was not that initially in conception at all. I mean, you know, there there was a kind
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