{"id":10800,"date":"2010-11-30T21:34:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10800"},"modified":"2010-11-30T21:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T02:34:20","slug":"western-art-has-lost-its-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/western-art-has-lost-its-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Western art has lost its way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that isn\u2019t news, but here are the latest examples of grotesqueness for its own sake masquerading as art:<\/p>\n<p>The ant covered Jesus on display at the Smithsonian:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static\/managed\/img\/U.S.\/604\/341\/crucifix.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the 7\/7 London bombing with four angels, one for each of the bombers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/11\/26\/article-1333259-0C3B5D4C000005DC-241_468x412.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"468\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both works are intended to shock. Sadly, that seems to be all Western art has left to offer: no meaning, no beauty no transcendence, just shock \u2013 each shock more shocking than the last.<\/p>\n<p>Bankrupt art for a bankrupt civilisation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that isn\u2019t news, but here are the latest examples of grotesqueness for its own sake masquerading as art: The ant covered Jesus on display at the Smithsonian: and the 7\/7 London bombing with four angels, one for each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/western-art-has-lost-its-way\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2047,2267],"class_list":["post-10800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-art","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}