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354 pages • first pub 1901 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226772400
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 November 2002
Description
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They reje...
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354 pages • first pub 1901 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780226772400
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 15 November 2002
Description
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They reje...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings