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290. Douglas Murray & Jonathan Pageau

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What's the Highest Form of Art?

Postmodern art has become a kind of caricature where it is a comment upon a comment and upon a comment it almost gets reduced to propositions. The only way to really get back to that is to engage in the turgical art so by making things for churches is possibly the realest thing an artist can do. Douglas: I denigrated Netflix earlier let me rub it back a bit because they are effectively warehouses of junk or future junk. Warhol's problem is he roughly knows how to ask questions and he sort of finds his way towards the basic questions like what are we doing here what survives of us what's the love. That seems to be the situation you describe with modern art which itself describes

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