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Freeman Beauty
If beauty is a subjective pleasure, it will appear to have no higher standing than something that entertains, amuses, or distracts; it appears odd or ridiculous to treat it as being comparable in importance to reality or justice, for instance. And the twentieth century additionally abandoned beauty as the dominant goal of the arts, again possibly partially as a outcome of its trivialization in principle led artists to believe that they must pursue extra actual and more critical initiatives. This decline is explored eloquently in Arthur Danto’s guide The Abuse of Beauty . The affect of this sequence of thoughts …
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