Art as Social Commentary
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Authors
Abraham, Erin Elizabeth
Issue Date
2003
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Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Too often in our busy contemporary lives we separate the beautiful into a domain aside
from our daily regimen. Art is left for aesthetes who presumably form subjective and fleeting
opinions in order to maintain a discourse elevated from the practicality of the masses. Yet the
presumption that art requires such a study is counter-intuitive to human experiences of the
beautiful. We all share common experiences in which we are inevitably forced to pause and
reflect. I will argue that the broad experience of beauty as art is a necessary and constitutive
component of leading a rational life however fleeting and meaningless the realm of artistic
experience may appear in Western rationality.
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41 p.
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