I think there are plenty of beautiful things in the world today. The theory in art history is that beauty became relegated to other factors after WWI and II. I

I think there are plenty of beautiful things in the world today. The theory in art history is that beauty became relegated to other factors after WWI and II. I believe this can capture the mood of the period, but it is a bit simplistic. IMO there has always been many factors, and never was beauty the only aspect of all art.