What Is Art? - III
It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individual. The other is unrelated to any of those: it is universal, and as objective as the laws of physics. Creating either kind of beauty requires knowledge; but the second kind requires knowledge with uni
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ON THE COMPARATIVE PLACE OF INTEREST AND BEAUTY IN WORKS OF ART.