🔎 How do we spot a masterpiece? Can we really know if the art we’re looking at is any good? Which is to say, how do we recognize talent? And is pleasure a real indicator of artistic greatness?

⚒️ Are there any identifying tools that may fit the unique shape of a new work of art?

Spotting great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): the presumed greatness of the famous actress, "La Berma”, inspired by the very real and very famous turn of the century Sarah Bernhardt, whose performance tests the main character’s artistic judgment. We’ll follow his tribulations with aesthetic anxiety, antcipation, experience, enjoyment and appreciation.

Are these the steps to artistic paradise?

Tune in to find out, and enjoy some beautiful excerpts of this magnificent, detailed, and wordy (in the best sense!) piece of literature. But... is it any good?

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Takeaways

• what is artistic talent
• how to identify it
• how Proust sees art and its judgement
• the subjective power revealed in art
• stream of consciousness
• what experience really means
• aesthetic experience and experience of lif