Join host Jack Fowler as he fills in for Victor Davis Hanson and welcomes renowned sculptor Sabin Howard for an insightful discussion on art, culture, and patriotism. Howard critiques modern art’s nihilism and highlights his commitment to creating art that honors American values and elevates human consciousness.
I agree completely with their theses, but was put off by the verbal fluff and a little ploding. Please consider providing transcripts of these podcasts, for your admirers.
Yes, its beyond question that post-modern art, and much so-called modern art, has no discernible humanistic, or religious, or admirable nationalistic roots. Let’s dispense with any discussion of Nazi-art, which was obsessed with nationalism, and various god-less themes! I won’t criticize the later periods of Picasso or Kandinsky, who were simply geniuses. But such genius is very hard to see in the world of art today. There is hop. Chagall was the father of several schools, and the art scene in Israel is thriving, and of course, divine-inspiration and discourse and related matters all find homes in the work of Jewish-Israeli artists. less so in the work of liberal diaspora Jews. But that’s all off the subject. There is room for non-figurative art that is beautiful, and which a=has admirable aesthetics, and which doesn’t despise its audience, which is the main take-away I got, and that I keep in mind when approaching contemporary art. Brutalism doesn’t begin to describe it.
Mr. Howard, thank you for your interesting discussion on art. I am not an artist, but if I were then I would try to memorialize the Great Train Wreck of 2023 by building a pillar of black smoke, with a burning tanker car at the base, to the east of East Palestine, Ohio, which would be offset by a white blade to the west. This would symbolize the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. Monoliths to disaster and to hope. Needless to say, there are neither funds nor desire for such a memorial.