This is crap. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, August 8, 2012 2:25:05 PM Subject: "...The core of the modernist aesthetic -- a hostility and defiance towards all traditional standards of excellence, discovered over millennia of craftsmanship and reflection; a notion of the artistbs freedom as absolute, and entirely divorced from t "...The core of the modernist aesthetic -- a hostility and defiance towards all traditional standards of excellence, discovered over millennia of craftsmanship and reflection; a notion of the artists freedom as absolute, and entirely divorced from the ends of his art; and, as Roger Scruton has so clearly demonstrated, a refusal to apply the category of beauty to either the creation or the estimation of artwork." http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2012/08/the_tyranny_of_2.htm l
