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| | Old School Avant-Garde, New Wave Traditionalists: An Essay on Innovation and Traditionalism in Art (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Obviously, the form of traditionalism I am describing here, like the form of innovation which appeals on the grounds of novelty, is based upon a false impression of things, and therefore deserves no place in art. |
 | | Of course, all this negativity about traditionalism may give one the impression that the dangers of traditionalism far outweigh any advantages, and it should therefore be excluded from any influential role in contemporary art. |
 | | One of the greatest advantages afforded the art community by traditionalism is its value as a gauge, composed of those aesthetic values which have been thought consistently over time and circumstance to be true, against which we can measure, or assess both our own aesthetic sensibilities, as well as that of our art. |
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