Sometimes modern art doesn’t seem to offer any deep insights into life, but neither does a traditional landscape or still life.  Are they more similar than they seem?  Is modern art valuable for the same reasons that traditional art is valuable?  We ask these questions as we discuss the idea of “Art as Spectacle” from chapter seven of Ways of Looking.  (Intro: Traveling in Your Mind (edited) by Loyalty Freak Music, from The Free Music Archive, CC0 1.0 Universal License. Outro: Bagatelle for a Winter Morning, composed and performed by Lily Popova, used by permission of the artist.)

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