{"product_id":"the-decline-and-fall-of-western-art-paperback","title":"The Decline and Fall of Western Art - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern art is best described as a psychological disease, the goal of which is nothing less than the total destruction of art - which it has more or less successfully done. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eModern art is not a natural evolution of art, but a kind of manufactured break from tradition, borne from a hubris and bias towards historical values. People today suffer a subconscious price for the suffocation and confusion of our ugly art galleries and cityscapes, standing in the long shadows cast by meaningless, obtuse shapes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContrary to what we have been taught, that abstraction in art progressed from Romanticism (like a frog in the slow-boiling pot) there is instead an easily discernible point where the tradition was broken, and the modern imposed itself. These are opposing world-views at war with one another and have little to do with progress or technology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe day the abstract scribbling manufactured its own language, a philosophy was born whose aim was to destroy true art, forever.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50853279563999,"sku":"9781720557852","price":26.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D1htC0LvNV9781720557852.webp?v=1785891663","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-decline-and-fall-of-western-art-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}