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Other sections deal with the obvious relativistic objections that arise from such a book as this and he handles them masterfully
He combines unusually great erudition with the ability to write in a way that is not merely comprehensible but actually enjoyable
My approach is philosophical and the principal sources for my argument are the works of philosophers
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Suggesting that this book is somehow elitist is not on par with what scruton was about
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The fable of the emperors new clothes aptly sums up the pretence of modern socalledart
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However professor scruton did not live in ignorance of other cultures it would be a fruitless endeavour to try and arrive at a universally recognised intuition of beauty without looking worldwide and he writes about examples from across the world such as the aesthetics of the japanese tea ceremony the dances of indian tradition and the domineering architecture of ancient egypt
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For example the elevation of the grotesque we see in so many modern socalledart galleries today has philosophical and even political reasons and scruton starts with duchamps objectively awful 1917 work called fountain which is literally just a porcelain urinal on the floor with some graffiti on it
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We see modern cliché imitations of this shock value kitsch throughout the 20th and now 21st century from andres serranos awardwinning desecration called piss christ a crucifix floating in a vat of the artists urine to the sculpture of an arse that won acclaim at the tate modern
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This approach is not scrutons
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He deliberately avoids trying to define the nature of beauty and he steers clear of summarizing competing interpretations
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Scruton is a british philosopher and conservative political commentator who has published extensively on a wide range of subjects
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