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Art: The Real Thing

BBC Radio 4 - A Point of View, Art: The Real Thing

What constitutes real art, as opposed to kitsch or that based on fake emotions and cliche?

Roger Scruton asks what makes for real art, as opposed to cliche or kitsch. Real art, he says, needs beauty, form and redemption.

In the last of his three talks on art Roger Scruton asks what constitutes real art, as opposed to cliche or kitsch.

He says we must ignore the vast quantities of art produced as commodities to be sold, in contrast to symphonies or novels that cannot be owned in the same way as a painting or a sculpture.

Real art has to have lasting appeal, he argues, and for that it needs three things: beauty, form and redemption. The production of such art, he says, takes immense hard work and attention to detail, but it can give meaning to our modern lives and show love in the midst of doubt and desolation. 

Producer: Arlene Gregorius.

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