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Herbert Marcuse's "New Sensibility"

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The Dialectical Synthesis of Being

The aim of art is to give a sensation of the object as a vision and not as recognition. The act of perception and art is an end in itself and must be extended. Art is a means of experiencing the becoming of the object. What has already become does not matter for art. And that's what he's talking about. We've got to get into the dialectical frame. He says, I have referred to the formalist because it seems characteristic that the transformative element in art is emphasized by a school which insists on the artistic perception as ending itself on the form as content. It is precisely the form by virtue which art transcends the given reality works in the established reality against the

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