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In Art And The Spiritual George Kofas argues that the vision and power of art has diminished in our own day and time and that such a phenomenon has been as a direct consequence of a diminishing of the Sublime within the collective mind of society. Such a cultural phenomenon came about as a result of events in the twentieth century that had a corrosive effect on man’s belief in the Ideal and the Sublime. Consequently a shadow of cynicism has permeated and overwhelmed the culture of our time. As art exists as a component within culture, it also has been affected by a loss of the Ideal. The collective consequence of such events as Hitler’s Holocaust and the Cambodian Genocide, have resulted ...