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A bold, refreshing cultural critique of the system of the fine arts. Reading this book will transform your thinking about art. Absorbing and informative, here is a book with personality. -- Arnold Berleant, Professor emeritus, Long Island University. Author of Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World

A bold, refreshing cultural critique of the system of the fine arts. Reading this book will transform your thinking about art. Absorbing and informative, here is a book with personality. -- Arnold Berleant, Professor emeritus, Long Island University. Author of Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human World In his book On the Philosophy of Central European Art, Max Ryynänen embarks into the much needed labor of rethinking and redefining categories of the Central European artworld that have stood partly unchallenged for too long or dealt with without the necessary depth. He questions these class-driven, ethnic, and hierarchical conceptions of art as they imply the superiority of “fine arts” presupposing others as inferior, rough arts . Ryynänen revises the conception of nobrow which disputes the high brow–low brow classifications of art in a didactic and easy to read text that will certainly ignite further discussions. -- Katya Mandoki, author of The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature among 7 Others

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Max Ryynänen is senior lecturer of theory of visual culture at Aalto University Finland.

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