Summary and Response to “What is ‘Art’? Part 1” In the section “What is ‘Art’? Part 1” of the book An Introduction to Art, Charles Harrison explores the birth of art in human history and discusses how we define and differentiate artistic creations from other things. He uses a hand axe which was made around six hundred thousand years ago as an example to demonstrate that humanity’s creativity does date back to ancient times and what he calls as ‘aesthetic sense’ was already developed in those cultures as opposed to functional or practical use of things. However, he argues that even with the sophistication or the long age of such artistic works or objects, it was hard to determine what is considered art and what is not. About a century
