PREFACE
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men lined up at barbershops to have their beards shaved off.
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Women painted their nails
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postcards of beautiful Indian movie stars,
Note:ALTRO MERCATO PRIMA-NERO
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adding colors like brown, peach, and green
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better fabric, finer embroidery,
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she found her own services every bit as popular as the serious business of health and welfare.
Note:IL PARRUCCHIERE AMERICANO A KABUL IN MISSIONE...CREDEVA DI SOCCORRERE
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elections, education, a free press.
Note:EQUIVICI SULL OGGETTO DELLA LIBERTÀ
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superficial things were just as important.
Note:TUTTAVIA
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right to shave may be found in no international treaty
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artworks like the giant Bamiyan Buddhas
Note:UNA CONCEZIONE ANGUSTA DELL ESTETICA
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a different view of the frivolous, consumerist impulses
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buying consumer electronics?”
Note:LA TRISTE CELERAZIONE DELLA LIBERTÀ
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Anna Quindlen in a 2001 Christmas column
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our persistent interest in variety, adornment, and new sensory pleasures is created by advertising,
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“I do not need an alpaca swing coat, a tourmaline brooch,
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Why buy a green burka when you’re a poor peasant and already have two blue ones?
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Yet liberated Kabul had no ubiquitous advertising
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our relation to aesthetic value is too fundamental to be explained by commercial mind control.
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Human beings know the world, and each other, through our senses.
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appearances are not just potentially deceiving but frivolous
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We learn to contrast surface to substance,
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sun does not go around the earth.
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When we declare that mere surface cannot possibly have legitimate value, we deny human experience
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We veer madly between overvaluing and undervaluing the importance of aesthetics.
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This book seeks to untangle those confusions,
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the nature of aesthetic value
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a healthy balance between substance and surface,
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“authenticity,”
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aesthetic authorities consider a prime measure of worth.
Note:L AUTENTICITÀ
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Universal CityWalk is deliberately fake.
Note:TRA LA E LA FERNANDO VALEY
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the open-air shopping mall “a great simulacrum
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the quintessential, idealized L.A.”
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adorned with bright signs, colorful tiles, video screens, murals, and such playful accessories
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encouraged its tenants to let their decorative imaginations run wild.
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artificial beach
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palm trees.
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fountain shoots water up through the sidewalk.
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vintage neon signs.
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condemned as an inauthentic
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a phony refuge from the diversity and conflict of a city
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“Exhibit A in a hot new trend among the beleaguered middle classes: bunkering,”
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a petting zoo
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Almost immediately, CityWalk became not a bunker but a grand mixing zone.
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CityWalk was full of people.
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they were all grinning,”
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a beloved hangout,
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“the most vital public space in Los Angeles,”
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the assumption that artifice and interaction are contradictory,
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a space where people from many different backgrounds can enjoy themselves together.
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South African of Johannesburg’s Montecasino, a casino that replicates a Tuscan village,
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imported cobblestones
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PRESENZE
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an old Fiat accumulating parking tickets
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Montecasino attracts a racially mixed crowd,
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Its deracinated design is central to its appeal.
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“Montecasino imposes nothing on anyone. It is completely, exuberantly fake,”
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it is this fakeness that ensures its egalitarian popularity.
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Blacks and whites feel equally at home
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The price of democracy, it would seem, is inauthenticity.”
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Maybe we’ve misunderstood the meaning and value of authenticity.
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While “art” can certainly be a meaningful category, it can also be deceptive,
Note:IL RISCHIO DI SEPARARE ARTE E VITA
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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in New York
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April 2002, Timothy Clifford,
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commentators denounce art museums for “dumbing-down” their exhibits with motorcycles, guitars, and Armani clothes,
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the line between art and artifacts was not always so rigid.
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“Renaissance artists of the highest caliber were commissioned to design
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lamps, salt cellars and tapestries,”
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You no longer have to be a Medici to enjoy aesthetic abundance,
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the profusion of style in everyday life.
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aesthetic value is subjective and can be discovered only through experience,
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sensory pleasure and meaning are fundamental, biologically based human wants
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Decoration and adornment are neither higher nor lower than “real” life. They are part of it.
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One THE AESTHETIC IMPERATIVE
