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constraint
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Avant-garde and Kitsch
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- The nonrepresentational or "abstract," if it is to have aesthetic validity, cannot be arbitrary and accidental, but must stem from obedience to some worthy constraint or original.†
*constraint = something that limits something else
- This constraint, once the world of common, extroverted experience has been renounced, can only be found in the very processes or disciplines by which art and literature have already imitated the former.†
- Once, however, it was abandoned, music was forced to withdraw into itself to find a constraint or original.†
Definitions:
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(constraint) limitation (something that limits something else)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In classic literature, constraint is often used where constrained would be used today to indicate an inhibited attitude (lack of spontaneity).