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The Democratization of Art

Stripping Art of Objective Beauty is a Race to the Bottom

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Scott Postma
May 07, 2022
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On Creating Meaningful Art (Pt. 3)

Perhaps Tolstoy was a curmudgeon. But his view on aesthetics was not developed overnight. He spent a lifetime thinking about them. In his published work, he comes to his definition by first working his way through a fairly unabridged bibliography of aestheticians, taking each one to task for what he believes are their e…

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