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  • From the late 17th to the early 20th century Western aesthetics underwent a slow revolution into what is often called modernism
  • For Hegel all culture is a matter of "absolute spirit" coming to be manifest to itself, stage by stage.
  • For Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the most free that the pure intellect can be from the dictates of will; here we contemplate perfection of form without any kind of worldly agenda, and thus any intrusion of utility or politics would ruin the point of the beauty.
  • Post-modern aesthetics and psychoanalysis
  • Early twentieth century artists, poets and composers challenged the assumption that beauty was central to art and aesthetics
  • Jean-François Lyotard re-invokes the Kantian distinction between taste and the sublime. Sublime painting, unlike kitsch realism, "...will enable us to see only by making it impossible to see; it will please only by causing pain."[28][29]

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