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Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones

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Easy beauty was apparent and unchallenging: “A simple tune; a simple spatial rhythm… a rose; a youthful face, or the human form in its prime, all these afford a plain straightforward pleasure….” Conversely, difficult beauty, wrote ...more

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