Tolkien on the Nature and Purpose of Christian Art | Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini

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🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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View Prof. Pezzini's handout here: https://tinyurl.com/342z96ec This lecture was given on April 21, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. Pezzini returned to Oxford in 2021, after five beautiful years in St Andrews (2016–2021). He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (2003–2008) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil. 2012). He held research fellowships at Magdalen College Oxford (2013–2015) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2016). From 2010 to 2013 he worked as Assistant Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin.

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0:08.0	So in the sense, what I'm going to present today is the stage two of our conversation
0:16.0	I've been able to my friend George in the past few years, so you can see the other side.
0:20.0	Or rather, rather the other side,
0:21.8	I will try to show you how actually there's not really the other side, as really truth and
0:27.4	beauty are really together, okay? So it doesn't really matter whether one starts from beauty
0:31.8	or one starts from truth. At the end of the day, it's the same thing. So it doesn't really matter.
0:36.5	There is no contrast between beauty and truth.
0:38.8	And I personally convinced that even the kind of exaggeration of aesthetics
0:44.3	that in our current world is a reduction.
0:46.7	It's not beauty in its full sense.
0:48.5	It's not like a bad beauty.
0:49.6	There is no bad beauty.
0:50.9	There is imperfect beauty.
0:52.5	There is incomplete beauty.
0:53.9	And that's where things start
0:55.3	going wrong. But anyway, I hope you I will understand what I tried to say after the end of the talk.
1:01.4	So today I'm going to talk about the nature of Catholic art according to an artist. So I'm not
1:08.0	according to a theologian, not according to a thinker, but according to someone who did art himself. And arguably, the artist I'm going to talk about is one of the most
1:16.4	successful Catholic artists, especially in the modern world. And this is Jaya Tolkien. And the question
1:22.7	I'm going to address is exactly what does it mean for Tolkien, who was a committed Christian,
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