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Restore: Our Eye for Beauty


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Is beauty objective? Should art exist to fulfill a function or is beauty its own function? Have we lost our eye for beauty? Daniel Hill explores these questions in the context of modern and historical architecture and art, in both secular and ecclesiastical worlds.


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