Author(s): Alexandra York
Publisher: American Renaissance for the Twenty-First Cen
Pages: 192
Binding: Paperback
Boldly addressing the anomaly of a nation experiencing both unprecedented material prosperity and cultural bankruptcy and calling herself a "radical for beauty," the author frankly spurns early twenty-first century primitivism, nihilism, deconstructionism and political correctness. Instead, she advocates revitalizing the fundamental tenets of our philosophical heritage: representationalism in the visual arts; melody and harmony in music; and structure and ideation in the written arts. In short: realistic romanticism, and beauty.