Free Download Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto) (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHZ3X9F7 | 2024 | 4 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 258 MB
Author: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
Narrator: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
With a new Introduction by Donna Tartt, exclusive to the audiobook. Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present. Received opinion holds that art is culturally determined and relative. We are told that whether a picture, a movement, a text, or sound qualifies as a "work of art" largely depends on social attitudes and convention. Drawing on examples ranging from Paleolithic cave paintings to modern pop music and building on the ideas of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Gilles Deleuze, Carl Jung, and others, J.F. Martel argues that art is an inborn human phenomenon that precedes the formation of culture and even society. Art is free of politics and ideology. Paradoxically, that is what makes it a force of liberation wherever it breaks through the trance of humdrum existence. Like the act of dreaming, artistic creation is fundamentally mysterious. It is a gift from beyond the field of the human, and it connects us with realities that, though normally unseen, are crucial components of a living world.
