Tattoos Can Sometimes Be Art: A Modest Embellishment of Stephen Davies’s Adornment

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79 (4):499-503 (2021)
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Stephen Davies offers a compelling account of adornment as a form of aesthetic enhancement that aims either to intensify or to contribute to beauty and sublimit.

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