But Is It Art

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Andres serrano,piss christ, 1987

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Nkisi nkondi, 1800s to present

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Chartres cathedral, 1200 ce

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Garden at versailles, 1700 ce

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Guerilla girls, how women get maximum exposure, 1989

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Francis Bacon, tryptych, 1973

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Diego velazquea, Las meninas, 1656

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Goya, black painting

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Warhol, brillo boxes

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Cindy sherman, untitled film stills

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Barbara kruger, your body is a battleground

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Judy chicago, dinner party, 1979

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Artemisia gentileschi, Judith slaying holofeenes, 1614 ish

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Lucy lippard

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Art theirist and critic, wrote in defense if serranos work piss christ.

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Kant

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Enlightenment philosopher that contributed to the theory of aesthetic. Kant believed the good judgement of aesthetics is within the artwork itself, not just in personal background.

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Hume

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Emphasised in education and experience to build a definition of beauty, believing men of taste acquire certain abilities.

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Freud

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Believed that art expresses unconscious feelings.

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Clement greenberg

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Famously called kitsch, something vulgar and popular with gray mass appeal.

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Plato

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Theory of ideas argues that non-physical forms represent the most accurate reality.

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John dewey

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Art expresses the life of the community

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Clive bell

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Form rather than content is how we see beauty in art.

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Linda nochlin

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Believed that there are no female artists that match Michelangelo

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David Sylvester

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Focuses on the form and ignores the emotional side of art.

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Leo tolstoy

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He believed an artists chief job is to express and communicate emotions to an abundance

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Richard Anderson

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Defines art as culturally significant. Meaning skilfully encoded in an affecting sensuous medium

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Michel foucault

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The meaning of work shouldn't be interpreted too much from the author intended meaning, but find meaning in the work itself.

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Arthur danto

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Anything can be art

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George dickie

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Art is any artifact which has conferred upping it the status of candidate appreciation by some person or persons

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Ritual

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Theory of art, an ordinary object or act acquires symbolic and affective significance through incorporation into s belief system shared by all participant.

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Beauty

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Hume- people with the most highly developed aesthetic taste value art. Top-down

Kant- something beautiful may be created or used with an eye to various practical goals

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Mimesis

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Increasing accuracy as the representation of nature.

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Context

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Refers to the cultural constraints in expectations that surround and influence artists creation.

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Primitvism

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Western art that borrows visuals from non-western

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Canon

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A list of greats or geniuses that made a mark in their field.

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Episteme

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A system of understanding or a body of ideas which give shape to the knowledge of a given time period.

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Significant form

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A particular combination of lines and forms that stir aesthetic emotion.

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Genius

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That an artists somehow can make materials come together into a form that is recongnizably beautiful to viewers.

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Diaspora

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A scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographical scale.

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Colonialism

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The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.