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Treatment for Spring Project v2: Corporeal Composition

By tapping into a visual curiosity and desire for novelty, attractions draw upon what Augustine, at the beginning of the fifth century, called curiositas in his catalogue of “the lust of the eyes.” In contrast to visual voluptas (pleasure), curiositas avoids the beautiful and goes after its exact opposite “simply because of the lust to [...]
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