The Fall of Western Art & Culture by David Starkey

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[Pleblordy]

Speaking for myself one of the most “radicalising” experiences of my life was simply looking around a gallery of modern “art” by recent graduates (publicly funded). The experience affirmed to me that there is something deeply wrong with our society and those who rule over us. When you consider the sheer time, money and psychological resources spent on churning out this nihilistic crap you really have to just stand in awe.

[MaxPlankton]

As Sir Roger Scruton once said and I paraphrase, 'the benefit of contemporary art galleries is that all the rubbish is in one place so that one can avoid it'. Apologies for my English grammar: I was in year one of the raving mad comp movement in my area.

[kundalini]

And again Thank you Professor Starkey❤

[BahHumbug-fx]

Absolutely Love listening to this extraordinary man ❤

[arthuroldale-kiev]

What a splendid fellow, Professor David Starkey is .

[AnnBell]

I didn’t realize this “model” of man was still out there. I can sit back and relax for this talk. Like a vacation! ❤️🍿😎

[sue.F]

“A modernity that does not dismiss the past, something you might actually want to live for.” These last words express a forward looking conservatism that could stir a nation from its enforced slumber. Starkey here is truly visionary.

[virgil]

This man is a national treasure for Britain.

[anncouper-johnston]

❤ Medieval architects built to the Glory of God (so we don't even know who they were). Modern ones build to be noticed.

[CHRISTOPHERDEW-hi]

Starkey is himself 'extraordinary': With a clarity of structure and communication, he imparts insights into his theme with rich and copious detail drawing together threads from a multitude of related fields. He is at the interface of old books and new ideas. Wonderful on every occasion.

[elephants]

Third time listening to this speech. It remains excellent!

[carmencollor]

Dear Dr. Starkey, what a brilliant talk ( yet another one). You deserve every recognition and honor for this priviledged mind of yours. Thank you so much for sharing your immense knowledge and extraordinary reasoning with us.

[threethrushes]

"The antidote to ugly art, is to create beautiful art in service of something greater than oneself."

Gerhard Symons

[BillSikes.]

The Rt Hon Dr Sir David Starkey Phd KG, GCB CBE, arguably the Greatest historian in the World!

[nicksallnow-smith]

As a previous inhabitant, I was very happy to hear you pronounce Cuventry correctly! I rather wish you had mentioned that that other Eliot, George Elliot, located her best novel in Coventry, fictionally called Middlemarch.

[johnstevens]

Take a look at the 'national treasure' Tracy Emin's work', it exemplifies what 'art' has become, conceptual claptrap.

[vernetify]

I would recommend reading H. R. Rookmaker “Modern Art and the Death of a Culture” first published 55 years ago.

[lmonk]

modern art and architecture is less of a passing of the torch but more a torching of the past.

[jeffcurtis]

I remember my first visit to Tate Modern. By the time I reached the second floor I was furious at the utter nonsense in there. It felt like I was being insulted at every turn. I left my girlfriend to it and waited outside. I've been back since but although I manage to walk further, it's not much further and the feelings remain the same with a swift exit.

[stephenrose]

I enjoyed this, as I do all Dr Starkey's provocative lectures, but with the additional insight of a painter, one who went to the R A and knew one of Basil Spence's colleagues.
The intellectual vanity of architects and the whole wrong-headed pursuit of post-war architecture have been well documented but still need to be amplified. We have politicians like the Mayor of London determined to deface their cities with a top-down arrogance that recognises nothing of local value or the opinion of the public, as ever we are at the mercy of fools bloated with power.
The great irony of the modern movement is how iconoclasm can be welcomed in with the lure of money and by turn, become the orthodoxy.
I recommend John Stephens Curl's lectures on YouTube. Thanks for posting.