Art & Antiques

Inner Beauty

N THE EARLY years of modern art, beauty was a suspect concept, redolent of Victorian sentimentalism or Classical perfectionism. So when Picasso proclaimed that an African tribal sculpture was more beautiful than the Venus de Milo, he was being ironic, or at the very least

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