Beauty = taste, about senses and feelings, not ideas.

Beauty must be appreciated for beauty’s sake, it can’t be functional/everyday, or be about gratification, desire or utility, e.g. a burger.

“Apure aesthetic experience, unpolluted by desire and utility, can be shared by everyone. `some things are universally beautiful. Yes – valuing and elevating art, no – laid cultural foundation for colonialism – ‘civilising’ .

Two world wars, postmodernism – stripped away in favour of aesthetic relativism.

Post-colonialsm – rejection of the superiority of the western canon