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Canon Club
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The Canon Club is a show about the Western canon: the great cultural inheritance we're handed, across music, art, and literature.
It was born of a blog by Ed West, in which he pined for a return to the amateur schools of art and literary appreciation that were so famous in pre-WWI Vienna. An era when people took seriously their commitment to appreciating the art that had come before them: from Beowulf to The Divine Comedy, from Goya to Beethoven, from Brahms to Ibsen.
This podcast is that latter-day Viennese salon. After all, the Western canon is everyone's birthright, even if most of us feel under-educated in it. Paul and Ed have set out to reclaim it for themselves, and thereby transmit it to a wider audience.
Ed West is a prominent British journalist, and the author of the wildly popular Wrong Side of History Substack.
Paul Morland is an expert in demographics, and the author of several books.
It was born of a blog by Ed West, in which he pined for a return to the amateur schools of art and literary appreciation that were so famous in pre-WWI Vienna. An era when people took seriously their commitment to appreciating the art that had come before them: from Beowulf to The Divine Comedy, from Goya to Beethoven, from Brahms to Ibsen.
This podcast is that latter-day Viennese salon. After all, the Western canon is everyone's birthright, even if most of us feel under-educated in it. Paul and Ed have set out to reclaim it for themselves, and thereby transmit it to a wider audience.
Ed West is a prominent British journalist, and the author of the wildly popular Wrong Side of History Substack.
Paul Morland is an expert in demographics, and the author of several books.
Canon Club: Why Did Van Gogh Only Start Painting In His Late Twenties?
Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Netherland, the son of a Protestant clergyman and into a family with close ties to the art world. Initially he struggled to find direction, working in various roles in his homeland, in England and France, at one time settling as preacher among Belgian coal miners.
But increasingly he dedicated himself to painting, mixing in Paris with leading impressionists and post-impressionists and eventually moving to Arles in the south of France where he achieved a distinct and striking style. Financially reliant on his generous brother Theo, his mental health deteriorated, with him first cutting off his ear and eventually killing himself in 1890, aged just 37.
Repute came shortly after his death and today he is one of the world's most popular artists, his works of art attracting some of the highest prices in the art world. Martin Gayford is a distinguished art critic who has written about Van Gogh's period in Arles living with Gaugin.
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The Canon Club is a show about the Western canon: the great cultural inheritance we're handed, across music, art, and literature.
It was born of a blog by Ed West, in which he pined for a return to the schools of art and literary appreciation that were so famous in pre-WWI Vienna.
An era when people took seriously their commitment to appreciating the art that had come before them: from Beowulf to The Divine Comedy, from Goya to Beethoven, from Brahms to Ibsen.
This podcast is that latter-day Viennese salon.
The Western canon is everyone's birthright, even if most of us feel under-educated in it. Paul and Ed have set out to reclaim it for themselves, and thereby transmit it to a wider audience.
Ed West is a prominent British journalist, and the author of the wildly popular Wrong Side of History Substack.
Paul Morland is an expert in demographics, and the author of several books.
In Season One, they'll be inducting one person or movement per episode into The Canon:
E01: Caravaggio with Andrew Graham Dixon
E02: Macbeth with Neema Parvini
E03: Anton Bruckner with Bryan Gilliam
E04: Anna Karenina with Rosamund Bartlett
E05: The Romanesque with John McNeill
E06: Thomas Mann with Tobias Boes
E07: Van Gogh with Martin Gayford
But increasingly he dedicated himself to painting, mixing in Paris with leading impressionists and post-impressionists and eventually moving to Arles in the south of France where he achieved a distinct and striking style. Financially reliant on his generous brother Theo, his mental health deteriorated, with him first cutting off his ear and eventually killing himself in 1890, aged just 37.
Repute came shortly after his death and today he is one of the world's most popular artists, his works of art attracting some of the highest prices in the art world. Martin Gayford is a distinguished art critic who has written about Van Gogh's period in Arles living with Gaugin.
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The Canon Club is a show about the Western canon: the great cultural inheritance we're handed, across music, art, and literature.
It was born of a blog by Ed West, in which he pined for a return to the schools of art and literary appreciation that were so famous in pre-WWI Vienna.
An era when people took seriously their commitment to appreciating the art that had come before them: from Beowulf to The Divine Comedy, from Goya to Beethoven, from Brahms to Ibsen.
This podcast is that latter-day Viennese salon.
The Western canon is everyone's birthright, even if most of us feel under-educated in it. Paul and Ed have set out to reclaim it for themselves, and thereby transmit it to a wider audience.
Ed West is a prominent British journalist, and the author of the wildly popular Wrong Side of History Substack.
Paul Morland is an expert in demographics, and the author of several books.
In Season One, they'll be inducting one person or movement per episode into The Canon:
E01: Caravaggio with Andrew Graham Dixon
E02: Macbeth with Neema Parvini
E03: Anton Bruckner with Bryan Gilliam
E04: Anna Karenina with Rosamund Bartlett
E05: The Romanesque with John McNeill
E06: Thomas Mann with Tobias Boes
E07: Van Gogh with Martin Gayford
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How interesting! To think that such a man like Caravaggio made art for the poor and the simple people. Now his art make more sense.
Edifying and interesting. Thank you. I'm intrigued to see what's next on the agenda.
We have an episode planned for two weeks’ time in which Ed talks to me about Dmitri Shostakovich
Brilliant as ever.
Love parvini but his analysis is orthodox Stratfordian, hardly heterodox. Not a mention of de vere.
@@kyleelsbernd7566 Conspiracy theories (theories about conspiracies) are not Parvini's forte. They require lateral thinking and intellectual effort to understand and they are not financially rewarding.
It would be good to hear your opinion about Shakespeares plays in relation to the Greek tragedies, was he influenced by the tragedies?
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Super interesting
Great stuff as ever.
Great discussion (though who’s the guy in the picture? Not Bruckner.) I hope no listeners will even contemplate listening to those appalling attempts to complete the Ninth.
I enjoyed yours too. So hard to convey in words what the music conveys.
Bruckner is underexposed.
38:50 Shakespeare's characters seldom if ever seek salvation?! Try actually reading the plays rather than quote scholars who are either anti-Christian or so Christian that Shakespeare is not moralistically Christian enough for them. Academic Agent/Neema Parvini does not know Shakespeare; he rehashes the opinions of some bad scholars about Shakespeare. King Lear is constantly "looking up". He asks the gods for help, and to forgive him. As for Hamlet, salvation (of himself and others) is one of his major preoccupations. Of course Macbeth . Othello asks Desdemona to confess her sins to God before she dies, for her salvation; and to be careful not to lie. Does that sound like a man that cares not about salvation? Both Macbeth and Othello care about salvation but they feel doomed because they can't stop doing what they know is a sin. Obviously villains aren't going to stop being villains and ask God for salvation, because they're villains. This doesn't mean that Shakespeare is "pre-Christian" writer concerned only with nature! I suggest Neema Parvini buys a Shakespeare Concordance and looks up 'salvation' and other words related to the concept. Study the primary texts for a change.
Totally agree. For his claims of heterodoxy parvini is predictable
@kyleelsbernd7566 Indeed. It's like his PhD: he can barely write a sentence without quoting or paraphrasing something from a Stephen Greenblatt type. I've heard him say that he's not even fussed about reading Shakespeare. It was just a financially safe subject that was recommended to him by an academic. Not hetero, just doxxed.
doesn't Hamlet say something in a soliloquy about man being 'quintessentially dust', and doesn't he also say that Alexander the great 'returned to dust'
40:16 Nonsense. Shakespeare is full of Christian allusions, ideas, world-views, experiences, archetypes. Shakespeare is said to have about two thousand Biblical allusions. Five times as many as Marlowe. Of course the likes of the awful Harold Bloom will downplay Christianity as much as possible (as will anti-Christian quoters of Harold Bloom types like Neema Parvini). They are not intellectually honest enough to say what is *there*: instead they see what they want to see.
This is making my nerdy heart gush!
AI shite
Scorsese directing Viggo Mortensen as Carravagio in a TV show based on this book would be amazing.
I saw a rendition of MacBeth at The Disney Theater in LA, as an Opera, and it struck me that the witches could also be seen psychologically as Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s paranoid psyche… run amuck driving them as if they had no real free will of their own… driven by power, greed, standing and collusion. It was astounding!
Or maybe they're just witches.
@ awe…maybe…I like that too of course, but you weren’t there
@Joe-os3vp awe …yes, I thought about that too as I sat there…in the theater watching it myself with so many others that were lucky enough to be there that night….
@dianawitty9628 You couldn't have paid me to be there. American productions of Shakespeare are bad enough, but in a Disney building ... in LA ... in opera form? No way. Not on your Nellie. The only way that could be worse is for a hut-dwelling D.E.I ex-academic conman to come on and quote a Freudian analysis of the play.
31:02 "Muckbeth and Muckduff?" First time I've "hyurd" them pronounced like that.
AA truly in his element.
@@jankymcjangles3817 Grifting is his element. He's admitted that he doesn't like or read Shakespeare, or indeed any fiction.
@Joe-os3vp was was literally a shakespeare scholar and has written booms on him
Fantastic overview of Macbeth and Shakespeare. Wonderfully detailed.
Not really. He just summed up a list of bad opinions of 20th century Marxist/Freudian academics. If you think this is detailed then the Penguin Shakespeare footnotes will blow your mind.
@Joe-os3vp blimey, I was just leaving a positive comment for something I enjoyed.
@@Sparkx100 And I was just leaving a negative comment for some awful, pretentious, textually incorrect and unoriginal Shakespeare commentary from a Ronald McDonald-funded, Stalin-loving, disgraced academic.
Subbed
Nice to hear AA with Uncle Ed, even if it's the "erm, erm, erm" AA.
He has a habit of this when on others podcasts. Much prefers his cave in Wales going solo.
It's always the erm erm Neema. Plus all the "y'know", "does that make any sense?", "kinda like", etc. Fills up the time between paraphrasing American academics.
You get what I’m saying right?
This is really good.