Reframing Beauty: Body, Environment, Art – An Introduction

Andrej Démuth, Lukáš Makky

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Introduction for Reframing Beauty: Body, Environment, Art, the thematic issue of ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics.

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ESPES; Beauty; Reframing

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ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics (ISSN 1339-1119) is published biannually by University of Presov, Slovakia and the Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia. Registration number of the journal in the Register of Periodical Publications of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic: EV173/23/EPP.

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