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From Adorno: "It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relationship to the world, not even its right to exist."
From Ribas: "The only thing self-evident about the contemporary is that nothing concerning the contemporary is self-evident anymore."
From Adorno: "It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relationship to the world, not even its right to exist."
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