If Triumph of the Will is viewed by a Nazi supporter in 1936, then they might not only not care for the purpose of the film but they might be in full agreement to the film’s – arguable - purpose. As such, to them the film may be exclusively beautiful, while in today’s perspective we may view it with mixed feelings, but even then we are already acknowledging a part of its beauty. In the case of the Sedlec Ossuary, this translates to saying that one must not necessarily have Coimetromania (Fascination with cemeteries) or Necromania (fascination with death) in order to appreciate the architecture made out of dead human beings. The question arises: why and how could we possibly overlook to the purpose of the art and still fully comprehended it and evaluate its …show more content…
For example, as a part of a 10th grade field trip, we visited Auschwitz. There, despite any of my effort to not be disgusted throughout the tour, I had no way of detaching the purpose / vision of the location from its visual appearance (granted even fully aesthetically speaking it’s not exactly beautiful) but somehow when it came to staring at a chandelier made out of at least one of each bone from the human body, I was