Why Beauty Matters is a 2009 British documentary film directed by Louise Lockwood and written and presented by the philosopher Roger Scruton.
[1] Michael Hogan wrote in The Daily Telegraph: A counterpoint to Waldemar Januszczak's Ugly Beauty treatise last week, which insisted that beauty exists in contemporary art if you know where to look, Scruton's view is much more conservative.
[2]Tim Dowling of The Guardian wrote: [Scruton's] precis of the history of theories about beauty, from Plato to Kant, only served to soften his case.
To point us in the right direction for the future of architecture, he could only offer Poundbury, the Prince Charles-sponsored Anglo-Disney in Dorset.
His visit with a traditionalist sculptor came across as two grumpy old men venting their contempt for all things new.