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July 1, 2014cwongyapAdorno, artistic inquiries, artistic resolution, contradictions, paradox Leave a comment Quote

“A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.”

—Theodor Adorno, Prisms (1967)

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Adorno on Embracing Contradictions

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