Can You Render the Disgusting Beautiful?

Kant says that you can't render the disgusting beautiful, but I think there's a lot of art in the past 60ish years that has played on disgust. So then the idea is that you cannot beautify the disgusting. Exactly. Although there's this amazing Christopher O'Feely painting that leverages elephant dung that I love so much.

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