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    It is not the case that Whatever the visual arts include must give way completely to beauty if not compatible with beauty, or be subordinate to beauty if compatible with it.

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    • 1.Hegel argued that art's highest vocation is the sensuous presentation of truth and Spirit, not the instantiation of beauty.
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    • 2.When artistic expression of historical, religious, or conceptual content conflicts with formal beauty, the content retains its artistic legitimacy.
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    • 3.Therefore, beauty functions as one criterion among several in visual art rather than as sovereign law over all other elements.
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    • 1.The sublime, as theorized by Burke and Kant, produces genuine aesthetic value through terror and formlessness that beauty cannot subsume.
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    • 2.If a category of aesthetic value exists that beauty cannot subsume or govern, beauty cannot be the supreme law of visual art.
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    • 1.Among the ancients, beauty was the supreme law of the visual arts.
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    • 2.Whatever is the supreme law of a domain takes precedence over all other elements within that domain.
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