Beauty and Politics Carrasco Barranco, Matilde political art Internal beauty Kalliphobia Danto, Arthur C. “Normative Aspects of Aesthetic Appreciation” (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain)) PID2019-106351GB-I00. Project “Beyond Beauty: Nature and Critical Relevance of Aesthetic Properties”; Fundación SENECA, Plan Regional de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia 20934/PI/18 This chapter discusses Arthur Danto’s contribution to the acclaimed return of beauty that had been taking place since the nineties and the significant role of politics in his view. Beauty was, for Danto, an aesthetic quality among others, since the legacy of the avant-garde turned beauty into a mere option for artists. In The Abuse of Beauty, Danto took interest in this quality as a contribution to art criticism and labelled “internal” the beauty intended to play a role in conveying a work’s meaning and, therefore, required by its critical interpretation. Nonetheless, in line with the avant-gardist rejection of beauty for moral and political reasons, Danto thought that the emotional effects of beauty, incapable of revolting and outraging people, still seriously limited the option of beauty in actively political contemporary art. The chapter explores the possibility of an “angry beauty” that might overcome such stigma. 2025-12-16T08:18:21Z 2025-12-16T08:18:21Z 2022-04-18 book part Carrasco Barranco, Matilde. 2022. “Beauty and Politics.” In Jonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr (eds). A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, First Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2022, pp. 354-361. ISBN: 9781119154211 9781119154211 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/108828 10.1002/9781119154242.ch40 eng embargoed access Wiley