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    Art produced in service of religion does not qualify as a... — Carmelics
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    Art produced in service of religion does not qualify as art in the fullest sense.

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    • 1.Art produced in service of religion was not worked for art's own sake.
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    • 2.Genuine art requires that the artist work for art's own sake.
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    • 3.Religious art subordinated beauty to the communication of meaning.
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    • 1.The premise that 'genuine art requires working for art's own sake' is a historically contingent Romantic doctrine, not a universal criterion of artistic value.
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    • 2.Aquinas and the medieval tradition held that beauty is a transcendental property of being itself, meaning sacred art participates in beauty more fully, not less.
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    • 3.If subordinating beauty to meaning disqualifies art, then Dante's Commedia, Bach's cantatas, and Chartres Cathedral must be excluded, which constitutes a reductio of the claim.
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    • 1.Hegel argued that art's highest vocation was to give sensuous expression to the Absolute, making religious art the paradigm of art's fullest realization.
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    • 2.If art achieves its fullest sense when it expresses the deepest truths humanity can articulate, then art serving ultimate concerns exceeds purely decorative or autonomous art.
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    I should prefer that only those be called works of art in which the artist had occasion to show himself as such and in which beauty was his first and ultimate aim. None of the others, which betray too obvious traces of religious conventions, deserves this name because in their case the artist did not create for art’s sake [weil die Kunst hier nicht um ihren selbst willen gearbeitet, literally “because here art did not work for its own sake”], but his art was merely a handmaid of religion, which
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