Sheehan Quirke is a British writer and online educator, known as The Cultural Tutor for creating accessible posts on art, history, and literature.
Why does modern life feel so devoid of beauty? For decades, efficiency has beaten out elegance. Cheap has replaced meaningful. When did we stop creating things built to last and meant to move us, and what would it take to return?
Expect to learn why contemplation is a luxury, or a necessity for sanity in the modern age, why we lost when architecture became more functional than beautiful, if there such a thing as objective beauty in architecture or if it’s purely cultural and subjective, which city or structure best captures the balance between progress and timelessness, if sterile architecture is one of the reasons the students of today are so bored and uninspired, and much more…
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0:00 Why We Should Add More Charm to the World
14:26 Where Sheehan’s Cultural Tutoring Began
27:58 Is the Mona Lisa Boring?
34:50 Why Liberals Should Embrace Traditional Architecture
54:07 Is Consumerism Killing Beauty and Charm?
58:19 The Most Beautiful Places in the World
01:06:31 Why We Struggle to Find Romance in an Age of Irony
01:22:02 How Does Our Material Consumption Shape Us?
01:32:21 Is Poetry Inaccessible?
01:45:43 What Would You Be Wiling to Die For?
01:49:08 What is Sheehan’s Favourite Cultural Lesson?
01:54:17 Where to Find Sheehan
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