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The Abuse of Beauty - The Paul Carus Lectures 21 (Paperback, 21)
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The Abuse of Beauty - The Paul Carus Lectures 21 (Paperback, 21)
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Danto simply and entertainingly traces the evolution of the concept
of beauty over the past century and explores how it was removed
from the definition of art. Beauty then came to be regarded as a
serious aesthetic crime, whereas a hundred years ago it was almost
unanimously considered the supreme purpose of art. Beauty is not,
and should not be, the be-all and end-all of art, but it has an
important place, and is not something to be avoided. Danto draws
eruditely upon the thoughts of artists and critics such as Rimbaud,
Fry, Matisse, the Dadaists, Duchamp, and Greenberg, as well as on
that of philosophers like Hume, Kant, and Hegel. Danto agrees with
the dethroning of beauty as the essence of art, and maintains with
telling examples that most art is not, in fact, beautiful. He
argues, however, for the partial rehabilitation of beauty and the
removal of any critical taboo against beauty. Beauty is one among
the many modes through which thoughts are presented to human
sensibility in art: disgust, horror, sublimity, and sexuality being
among other such modes.
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