Jonathan Pageau: Metaphors & Western Christianity
Jonathan Pageau carves Eastern Orthodox Icons and other traditional Christian images in wood and stone. He's a cognoscenti with regard to symbolism and the West. NOTE: This is a re-upload of a video that is approximately 2 years old.
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TIMESTAMPS BY: Cooper Sheehan
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:10 The artistry of symbolism
00:03:32 History of an artist / The transition from modern to contemporary art
00:06:36 The traditional view of art (art as the tool)
00:08:46 Finding a personal style in the contemporary art era
00:12:14 Is it Art? / Arts purpose (meaning/ integration) in the world
00:15:11 Modern art as destabilization
00:19:11 Contemporary art as a parody of modernism
00:21:33 The propaganda of Social Realism
00:23:37 Social Realism in contemporary media
00:25:36 The destruction of symbols as the restructuring of culture
00:26:49 Modern propaganda and the upside-down Fairy-tale
00:30:30 Miyazaki and feminine symbolism
00:33:46 Lord of the Rings: The technological power dynamic of the Ring
00:39:51 Taking in things to make us whole
00:44:23 The weight of the Ring (from Lord of the Rings)
00:47:23 The Little Mermaid: The transition of worlds
00:53:31 Living in the moment: Nihilism
00:54:51 Cain and Able: The sin of pride
01:00:23 Social revolution and the revolution of the content (happy / satisfied)
01:03:37 Our society of excess
01:07:46 Becoming an anchor / Truth, Justice, Civility
01:10:17 Fixing the problem from the ground up and the ecological problem
01:12:38 Remember the Christian story / Christianity as a way out
01:15:29 Finding one's place in life / Finding ones meaning / Jonathan Pageau finding meaning in religion for art
01:20:01 Iconography and life’s patterns
01:23:34 Symbolism life’s meanings
01:25:48 Islam and Religious expansion
01:29:15 The lenses we see the world through and Identification Theory
01:35:01 The pattern of being and reality
01:37:31 Desires as pulling away from the (ones) center / Giving into desire / The right hand and left-hand sins
01:41:20 Knowing one's center
01:42:21 Seeing films through a lens/ Shazam thought experiment/ Shazam and interpreting meaning
01:46:57 Reading too much into art / Hollywood film and narrative patterns
01:51:05 Personal bias in reading films / Pattern vs counter pattern
01:52:51 Introverted art vs extroverted art
01:57:08 Narrative morality / The scales of good or bad and narrative complexity
01:59:25 The framing of Christ
02:01:55 Film framing and narrative tropes
02:04:52 The Hollywood problem / The entertainment culture problem
02:06:35 When do you see the left going too far? / The world of exceptions
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I just finished (April 2021) a documentary called Better Left Unsaid http://betterleftunsaidfilm.com on the topic of "when does the left go too far?" Visit that site if you'd like to watch it.