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Submitted by katb130 on April 26, 2005
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In late Antiquity the arts consisted of the seven artes liberales, the liberal arts: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric, Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, and Music. Philosophy was the mother of them all. On a lower level stood the technical arts like architecture, agriculture, painting, sculpture and other crafts. \\\\\\\"Art\\\\\\\" as we concieve of it today was a mere craft. Art in the Middle Ages was \\\\\\\"the ape of nature\\\\\\\". And what is art today?
Can we give a definition?
Sir Roger Penrose, one of the foremost scientists of our time, when faced with a similar problem with regard to the definition of quite something else, viz., consciousness, states in his The Emperor\\\\\\\'s New Mind: \\\\\\\"I do not think that it is wise, at this stage of understanding, to attempt to propose a precise definition of consciousness, but we can rely, to good measure, on our subjective impressions and intuitive common sense as to what the term means ...\\\\\\\"[1]
The same seems to hold for art: You know what it is, I know it, but a definition is quite something else.
You can\\\\\\\'t say
Although one probably cannot give a real definition of Art, here are some thoughts (and a whole lot of quotations) on the subject. Let\\\\\\\'s start with a quote from \\\\\\\"What is Art? What is an Artist?\\\\\\\" by Chris Witcombe, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
\\\\\\\"Arthur Danto, professor of philosophy at Columbia University ..., believes that today \\\\\\\"you can\\\\\\\'t say something\\\\\\\'s art or not art anymore. That\\\\\\\'s all finished.\\\\\\\" In his book, After the End of Art, Danto argues that after Andy Warhol exhibited simulacra of shipping cartons for Brillo boxes in 1964, anything could be art. Warhol made it no longer possible to distinguish something that is art from something that is not.\\\\\\\"[2]
Anything could be a work of...
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