Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation (1952) by Josef Pieper argues that genuine art and beauty require a particular form of love and receptive contemplation—only those who truly love can truly see and create.
Philosophical argument that art requires love; deepens the theory of leisure with an aesthetics of love.
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