aesthetic beauty bores me because there's just too much of it

Interesting piece by Umberto Eco on the definition of aesthetic beauty in the 20th century - how it is nonlinear and immediately accessible.

We cannot look at things from such a distance; all we can do is content ourselves with noting that the first half of the 20th century, up to and including the 1960s at most (after which it would be more difficult), witnessed a dramatic struggle between the beauty of provocation and the beauty of consumption.

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