The forbidden subject: how oppositional aesthetics banished natural beauty from the arts

Cambridgeshire, UK: The White Horse Press (2019)
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Abstract

The Forbidden Subject launches from Ed Abbey's affirmation in Desert Solitaire: 'This is the most beautiful place on earth'. How could such a sentiment become construed as problematic, elitist, or worse? How did beauty become, and why does it largely remain, what Emory Elliot dubbed 'the forbidden subject'?

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