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Art
Danto, A.C. | January 6, 1992 issue

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Philosophers, jurists and civil libertarians alike have been intrigued by an argument made in the so-called Minneapolis Ordinance, which attempted to treat certain representations as being in violation of the civil rights of women. A distinction must be drawn between the power of images and what one might call the power of art, where the effect of experiencing a work of art can be tantamount to a conversion, a transformation of the viewer's world. Socila reformer John Ruskin for example, underwent just such a transformative experience with painter Tintoretto's stupendous paintings in the Scuola San Rocco in Venice.

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ART; PAINTING; CIVIL rights; PHILOSOPHERS; MACKINNON, Catharine; HUMANITIES
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