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16 Jun 08

Cities for Living by Roger Scruton, City Journal Spring 2008

  • “Humanity lives by trial and error, sometimes committing errors of a monumental scale. Architectural and urbanist modernism belong—like communism—to a class of errors from which there is little or nothing to learn or gain. . . . Modernism’s fundamental error, however, is to propose itself as a universal (i.e., unavoidable and necessary) phenomenon, legitimately replacing and excluding traditional solutions.”
  • Modernist vandals like Richard Rogers and Norman Foster—between them, responsible for some of the worst acts of destruction in our European cities—live in elegant old houses in charming locations, where artisanal styles, traditional materials, and humane scales dictate the architectural ambience.
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29 Jun 07

Pablo's punks | Arts critics | Guardian Unlimited Arts

  • he all but obliterates the 500-year-old western tradition of perspective by flattening his flesh silhouettes in a space that goes nowhere. It's this visual violence that liberates his eroticism, because it erases any meaning or narrative.
12 Jan 07

New Left Review - Raymond Williams: When Was Modernism?

  • Determining the process which fixed the moment of modernism is a matter, as so often, of identifying the machinery of selective tradition. If we follow the Romantics’ victorious definition of the arts as outriders, heralds, and witnesses of social change, then we may ask why the extraordinary innovations in social realism, the metaphoric control and economy of seeing discovered and refined by Gogol, Flaubert or Dickens from the 1840s on, should not take precedence over the conventionally modernist names of Proust, Kafka or Joyce.
  • ‘Modern’ began to appear as a term more or less synonymous with ‘now’ in the late sixteenth century, and in any case used to mark the period off from medieval and ancient times. By the time Jane Austen was using it with a characteristically qualified inflection, she could define it (in Persuasion) as ‘a state of alteration, perhaps of improvement’, but her eighteenth-century contemporaries used ‘modernize’, ‘modernism’ and ‘modernist’, without her irony, to indicate updating and improvement.
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