Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files <blockquote> The "what is art?" question has a long history and a number of viable responses. It's not the sophomoric dead-end topic some might think it is. Those interested would do well to survey some of the theories of art that have been well developed. (Shamelessly abbreviated and lifted from Carrol, Noel. (1999) Philosophy of Art, London, Routledge) * Art as Representation * Art as Expression * Art as (Significant) Form * Art as Aesthetic Experience * Art as Open Concept and Family Resemblance (AKA Neo-Wittgensteinianism) * Art as Institution * Art as Historical Definition Second, some confusion is being created by overloading the word "art." "Art" can refer to physical objects, performances, and so on. "Art" can also refer to a field of exploration. It would be useful to differentiate between the field of "art" (the second meaning), and "works of art" (the first meaning). --philip galanter </blockquote> ---- * Art is what you can get away with * Art is [[dada|a smiling corpse]] Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International what_is_art.1211621881.txt.gz Last modified: 2008-05-24 09:38by nik