I cannot recommend this documentary enough. I watched it last night, and it blew my socks off.
A fantastic look at the importance of beauty in art, architecture and our every day lives, from a straight talking conservative-minded philosopher and writer.
He, with devastating politeness and simplicity, destroys those responsible for bringing vulgarity and ugliness to our lives - something that began in earnest from the 1960s onwards.
You are left agog, only to make a series of logical connections to things and to wonder how more people do not realise what is going on in our society today.
Click the link and watch the broadcast on BBC iPlayer, for free. This is available for the next 6 days, so get in there if you haven't seen it already.
And if you wish, pen your thoughts on it here for further debate.
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Roger Scruton's documentary 'Why Beauty Matters' is brilliant
Posted by J Demetriou at 15:55
Labels: art and culture, beauty in art and architecture, documentaries, modern britain, roger scruton, why beauty matters
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Am in total agreement. Mr. Scruton holds a light to shine in a dark world and I am really grateful to him and to the BBC for showing this. Hopefully we will have more programmes like this.
My favourite bit was where he went to Reading, the place of his birth, to show what the communists did to the city in the '60s - namely destroy attractive and beautiful architecture and housing only to replace it all with depressing, moribund, supposedly functional, brutalist tower blocks and office dwellings.
He stood outside one boarded up, vandalised buildings and made an astonishing remark, along the lines of 'I don't blame the vandals for spreading graffiti all over the walls...the real vandals were those who constructed these monstrosities in the first place'.
The graffiti, he said, was merely the cherry on the cake.
A devastating, true and knock out blow to the left wingers of the Guardian, who pretend that such buildings are wonderful and ought to be listed.
The Guardian left have destroyed this country. Make no mistake about it.
What about the part of beauty in life and communication?
Sorry to post on an old topic but I only just got round to watching this and I agree: it was an incredible programme, a work of art in itself. Thankyou very much for recommending it.
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