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Inevitably comes up here too and he discusses its centrality to philosophical aesthetics in the final chapter but its not grahams focus

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The book as a whole is pitched at an introductory level that should be accessible to collegelevel readers

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He also at the same time appears on occasion to oversimplify some of the material he discusses to the point where it could easily be misunderstood

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Then he argues that collingwood effectively oversteps the boundaries of expressionism by claiming that art helps us to understand ourselves since graham argues the mere expression of emotion cant do this effectively

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If that were true it would as graham points out be hard to understand how a poem like t

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There are other aspects of the book to argue with his discussion of architecture frames the possibilities in ways that are overly narrow and as a consequence suggests i think wrongly that someone like the innovative antoni gaudi should be thought of more as an openair sculptor than an architect

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There are two excellent reviews of this text already posted here