“The most inexplicable paradox of the work of art is that it seems to exist for itself and yet not for itself; that it addresses itself to a concrete, historically and sociologically conditioned public, but seems, at the same time, to want to have no knowledge at all of a public.”
Quote by Arnold Hauser
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The Social History of Art: Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
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