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  • Edmund Burke
    In aesthetics: The value of art

    …of art: the concept of taste. If I am amused, it is for a reason, and this reason lies in the object of my amusement. We thus begin to think in terms of a distinction between good and bad reasons for laughter. Amusement at the wrong things may seem to…

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  • Edmund Burke
    In aesthetics: The origins of modern aesthetics

    … (who began the study of taste that was to dominate aesthetics for a century), and Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon.

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18th-century views

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    In Johann Sebastian Bach: Symbolism

    …by something else—artistic discrimination, or taste. One of the most respected attributes in the culture of the 18th century, “taste” is an utterly individual compound of raw talent, imagination, psychological disposition, judgment, skill, and experience. It is unteachable and unlearnable.

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