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Ortega Y Gasset Argued That Because We Can't Spontaneously Connect

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Ortega y Gasset argued that because we can't spontaneously connect with modern or abstract art, we are forced to improvise new behaviors-behaviors lacking "sentiments and passions"-in order to relate to this new art.


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