Architecture is no longer anything but an art like any other. Stained glass doesn't hold the same value in terms of communicating ideas that it probably did to the people who were there when the stained glass was first made. The arts emancipate themselves break the yoke of the architect and take themselves off each one in its own direction so they gain by this divorce isolation aggrandizes everything sculpture becomes statuary, image trade becomes painting and canon becomes music.
We're dipping back in the Victor Hugo well this week with his other best-known book The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Did you know that the book and the Disney movie don't end the same way?
Also on tap: road trips, games of tag, revisiting the poverty question from last week, and talking about Hugo's views on architecture vs. the printing press.
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