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kalliphobia
2011.10.29
"gooorgeous" artifacts might easily cause stomach ache, skin rash, and they might provoke other acute symptoms. this kind of response to “beautiful” can be the reaction of a healthy aesthetical immune system, also it can be considered as "kalliphobia" (named after the Greek word for beauty - 'kalos')
the beauty of the world and the beauty of life obviously cannot be denied without consequences. i am leaning to take the revulsion to perfect beauty as a natural moral stand of the photographer. a philosophical argument that beauty might claim the same status and weight as virtue and vice would imply that something is not right, or even indecent in the pursuit of beauty
at the height of the Vietnam war, the expressionist painter Philip Guston quit his “beautiful” paintings that brought him the reputation, instead, he began to paint allegories of evil. in accordance with the intended political and moral message he felt obliged to replace beauty with truth
thus kalliphobia is not necessarily the aberration of a narrow and snobbish audience, it is rather a natural reaction to the untrue and hypocritical representations of a not so perfect world
the beauty of the world and the beauty of life obviously cannot be denied without consequences. i am leaning to take the revulsion to perfect beauty as a natural moral stand of the photographer. a philosophical argument that beauty might claim the same status and weight as virtue and vice would imply that something is not right, or even indecent in the pursuit of beauty
at the height of the Vietnam war, the expressionist painter Philip Guston quit his “beautiful” paintings that brought him the reputation, instead, he began to paint allegories of evil. in accordance with the intended political and moral message he felt obliged to replace beauty with truth
thus kalliphobia is not necessarily the aberration of a narrow and snobbish audience, it is rather a natural reaction to the untrue and hypocritical representations of a not so perfect world
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beautiful....
borogovoi · 2011-10-30: 12:03
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"truth" and "beauty" have a very unholy relationship, at least when observed from the outside. both are rare. both are good. both are highly overrated. both are imperfect, as they occur in reality. thus, kalliphobia is more or less a "displacement activity": it's not beauty that is disliked, it's the use of beauty in repetitive, boring, non creative depiction that does not contribute to the further development of truth.
stormfish · 2011-10-31: 06:10
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