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We read the works of the older literature differently from those of our own age; we enjoy them purely aesthetically, that is, indirectly, disinterestedly, perfectly aware of their fictitiousness and of our self-deception.

— Arnold Hauser

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Folk-art signifies the poetical, musical and pictorial activities of those strata of the population which are uneducated and not urbanized or industrialised.

Bihar Tribal Research Institute (1961)

The historical importance of the Carracci is extraordinary; the history of the whole of modern ‘church art’ begins with them.

The art of representing the human figure in the ancient world begins and ends with ‘frontality’.

Aristocracy in general does not favour individualism; it bases its claim to privilege upon virtues which are common to the whole class or at least to whole clans.

The late Middle Ages not merely has a successful middle class—it is in fact a middle-class period.

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