Why is Chu Kuang-Ch'ien's Aesthetic Thought Subjective Idealism?

Contemporary Chinese Thought 6 (3):62-118 (1975)
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In the realm of man's culture, among the things created by man, art should be beautiful; its primary essential characteristic should be that it be able to evoke a sense of beauty in the person, that by its beauty it be able to provide for the person the pleasure of the sense of beauty. This is a fact that no one can deny outright. However, saying that art should be beautiful is not the same as saying that all art is beautiful. In fact, there is art which is beautiful and art which is not beautiful; and this too is a fact that no one can deny

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