I came across a long article entitled "Beauty and Desecration" by Roger Scruton, in which beauty is championed, defended against what Scruton calls its desecration at the hands of modern and post-modern artists who believe that art is primarily disruptor, disturber, and provoker. He cites as evidence a Mozart opera produced in Berlin back in …
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