There is an ancient view that beauty is the object of a sensory
It has lost its value and gained a price.
Moreover human beauty belongs to our embodiment, and art that ‘objectifies’ the body, removing it from the realm of moral relations, can never capture the true beauty of the human form.
Desecration is a kind of defence against the sacred, an attempt to destroy its claims.
According to many philosophers and anthropologists, however, the experience of the sacred is a universal feature of the human condition, and therefore not easily avoided.
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