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1319: 227:, only served to soften his case. There's a reason people don't think of the world as "intrinsically meaningful" any more: because it isn't. ... Scruton's biggest problem was his failure to provide us with anything to replace the modern world with. To point us in the right direction for the future of architecture, he could only offer 1118: 185:
treatise last week, which insisted that beauty exists in contemporary art if you know where to look, Scruton's view is much more conservative. ... En route, Scruton namechecks many of the same modern artists as Januszczak:
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is a 2009 British documentary film directed by Louise Lockwood and written and presented by the philosopher
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movement. His is a passionate argument, eloquently put, if perhaps a reactionary one.
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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precis of the history of theories about beauty, from
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Roger Scruton
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Roger Scruton
beauty
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The Daily Telegraph
Waldemar Januszczak
Carl Andre
bricks
Jeff Koons
Young British Artist
Tim Dowling
The Guardian
Plato
Kant
Poundbury
Prince Charles
Dorset
Why Beauty Matters
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"BBC iPlayer choices - Saturday 28 November"
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Dowling, Tim
"The Queen and Why Beauty Matters"
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