The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton
GUIDE: Vincent van Gogh
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De Botton begins with an anecdote of a trip to France to see the much renowned beauty of Provence. He looks out at the view and does not find it beautiful. This leads him to question the idea of a universal aesthetic: “aesthetic tastes may be less rigid than the analogy suggests. We overlook certain places because nothing has ever prompted us to conceive of them as worthy of appreciation, or because some unfortunate but stray association has turned us against them. |
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