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Re: [microsound] miles of styles of philosophes



>> Beauty is, I believe, a cultural or personal value. 
>
>I was talking about whether art is universal with my other friend the 
>other day. There's an exhibition of Egyptian relics currently on in the 
>museum, and she was using it as proof of the existence of universal art: 
>it had been made for the purpose of being beautiful, and beautiful was 
>how she found it, despite knowing almost nothing about Egyptian culture 
>or what the Egyptian way of life would have been.

I think you should research heavily into Egyptian art before you say it
was made for the purpose of being beautiful.  It was not made to be
beautiful, and was largely made (as was most ancient art) for ritual or
religious purposes.  Personally I doubt the existance of 'universal art'
(although I'm not sure what is meant by that) but if it's simply art you
and your friend find to be beautiful without knowing about it then I'm
sure universal art abounds.
  

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