{"product_id":"the-decline-and-fall-of-brendan-m-p-heard-9781720557852","title":"The Decline and Fall of Western Art","description":"Modern 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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brendan M. P. Heard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1720557853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781720557852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d","brand":"Brendan M. P. Heard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988002144511,"sku":"9781720557852","price":19.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df6163ac-21fb-472f-8ddf-8a49bd016c71.jpg?v=1683292071","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-decline-and-fall-of-brendan-m-p-heard-9781720557852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}