Art fighting its way back to aesthetics: Revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain

When Claire Farago and Donald Preziosi claim that ‘art is not what you think it is,’ aesthetics itself is implicitly challenged, especially aesthetics’ seemingly inherent correlation with art. However, aesthetics, as complex and ambiguous as the concept of art, calls for a similar suspicion. In this...

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Main Author: Anne Sejten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/sejten.pdf