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    It is not the case that Beauty requires that an object possess both extensive clarity (richness and variety) and sufficient unity to be grasped as a whole.

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    • 1.Certain minimalist works—Rothko's color fields, Cage's 4'33''—achieve beauty through radical reduction of variety, not extensive richness.
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    • 2.Beauty grounded in singular, undifferentiated qualities demonstrates that extensive clarity is a sufficient but not necessary condition for aesthetic experience.
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    • 3.A theory that cannot account for the beauty of simplicity conflates the conditions for one species of beauty with the conditions for beauty as such.
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    • 1.The sublime, as Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment, produces aesthetic pleasure precisely through overwhelming unity and resisting comprehension as a whole.
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    • 2.If genuine aesthetic value can arise from the failure of synthesis, then unity is not a necessary condition for beauty but merely one aesthetic mode among several.
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    • 1.Neither fully distinct nor fully obscure concepts are compatible with the feeling of beauty.
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    • 2.Extensive clarity stimulates perception by offering richness and variety.
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    • 3.Unity allows the perceiver to take in the object as a whole with equilibrium and proportion.
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