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48 THE HIGH SCHOOL JOURNAL
BEAUTY
"What is Beauty in Architecture?" asks Raymond M. Hood, noted a
tect and one of the designers of the Chicago Tribune Tower. And he ans
"I cannot tell what beauty is, but I can tell what it is not." For a defi
of it, "Do not go to the artist, particularly the one who admits that h
artist. By the very definition the artist is one who exploits beauty. He
self constituted priest of the cult of beauty. Like the priesthood of any
gion, he makes a business of its expansion and development. He surroun
coming with mystery and strange words in order to keep the ritual to hi
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