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References to high-art notions span the globe. Centuries of continuous and changing conceptions of high art have involved, for example: ideas about the grand and the common, the technical study of its rhetoric concerns, its indifferent morality or lack of any firm moral basis to it, its notions of beauty, perfectionism, emotion, idealism, formalism, the sublime, taste, academic painting and correctness, can be found in the work of Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Joshua Reynolds, David Hume and Clive Bell.
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Cannatella, H. (2015). Are We Teaching High Art or Low Art?. In: Why We Need Arts Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-094-9_7
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