Beauty and critical art: is beauty at odds with critical–political engagement?
Traditionally, beauty is understood as an ability of some objects (artworks included) to occasion in viewers a distinctive type of unmediated/pure pleasure—aesthetic pleasure. According to this common understanding of beauty, political–critical art does not seem to raise in viewers the feeling of ae...
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Taylor & Francis Group
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Journal of Aesthetics & Culture |
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| Online Access: | http://www.aestheticsandculture.net/index.php/jac/article/view/27720/40757 |