Cult of beauty
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In his 1913 essay The Serious Artist, Ezra Pound discusses two types of art; The "cult of beauty" and the "cult of ugliness". He compares the former with medical cure and the latter with medical diagnosis, and goes on to write "Villon, Baudelaire, Corbière, Beardsley are diagnosis." - "beauty is difficult": Cantos LXXIV, LXXX
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See also
- Ideal beauty
- Beauty
- Cult of ugliness
- The Goncourts on French Rococo and the cult of beauty
- Why Beauty Matters, 2009, a documentary by Roger Scruton
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