Spiritualized modern art converges with natural beauty

Evidence

In fact, as a result of the spiritualization that it has undergone during the past two centuries, and which has emancipated it, art has not alienated itself from natureas reified consciousness would have itbut has instead approximated itself to natural beauty in accordance with its own form … Art attempts, using human means, to make what is not human speak. The pure expression of works of art, freed from reifying disturbances, as well as from so-called natural materials, converges with nature, just as, in the most authentic creations of Anton Webern, the pure sound to which these works reduce themselves, by force of their subjective sensibility, transforms itself into natural sound. Admittedly, it is the sound of a nature that has become eloquent; it is the language of nature, not merely the reflection of a part of it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2734

Categorization

• XREF: Directly the aesthetic phase of the Dialectic of Enlightenment nature-domination theme (ch49-50); extends ch45’s nature-domination reading of music to a reconciliation. — connects to: Parks’ finest purpose is spiritual uplift via beauty — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 526