This lecture was given in New York at the Foundation for the Advancement of Art’s conference. ‘For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the “Isn’t that disgusting” strategy. By that I mean the strategy of pointing out that given works of art are ugly, trivial, or in bad taste, […]
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‘Artist Jens Haaning received $84,000 to incorporate into a piece. When the Kunsten museum took the delivery, they found two empty frames with a new title: “Take the Money And Run.” ‘“The work of art is that I took their money,” Haaning told broadcaster DR. ‘The museum wants its money back, but Haaning is so
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Ha alimentado durante toda nuestra historia al populismo argentino. Desde los caudillos a Rosas, desde Perón a Galtieri, desde Néstor a Cristina Por Eduardo Marty. Artículo original en Infobae: aquí. Con referencias de Stephen Hicks. “Envy: hatred of the good for being the good” (Ayn Rand) Si ha habido un sentimiento que ha alimentado durante toda
¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. La pregunta importante es: ¿Por qué el mundo del arte del siglo XX adoptó lo feo y lo ofensivo? ¿Por qué ha derramado sus energías creativas y su astucia en lo trivial y autoproclamado como sin sentido? Traducido al Español por Alejandro
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I teamed up with artist Michael Newberry to produce this new short book: Art: Modern, Postmodern, and Beyond: A Brief Overview of Why the Art World Has Become Trivial and A Manifesto It contains two previously published essays by philosopher me and an essay and manifesto by artist Newberry. Each has lots of accompanying art
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The second part of my seminar on Nietzsche and Rand. (First part of the presentation is here. In English, after the introduction in Spanish by María Marty.) Hosted by the Ayn Rand Center Latin America.
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A page dedicated to my articles and books translated into Spanish. https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ Aquí encontrarán algunos de mis artículos traducidos al español. https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/
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A few excerpts from Rudolf Wittkower‘s important essay “Individualism in Art,” published in Journal of the History of Ideas 22 (1961), 291-302. From guild monopolies to individual entrepreneurism: “It would seem that with the breaking of the guild monopoly in the course of the XVth century the artist’s attitude to his work changed. Instead of
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born into a highly musical family. His father was was a skilled violinist and his older sister played the clavier excellently, so from his infancy he was surrounded by music. Yet, as he wrote in a letter to a friend, that was supplemented by deep study. “it is a mistake to
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Leighton Woodhouse wrote this perceptive piece focused on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, Volume I. Woodhouse is right that sometimes Foucault offers only descriptive accounts of constitutive power relations. (Like in HS, though even in HS he does not consistently stick to that.) But that’s not the only Foucauldian text. Foucault also describes himself as a
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