"What is Art?: Who Cares?


	"What is Art?: Who Cares?

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11-8-2007 3:34 AM

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It began to worry. Painters stopped simply doing what they were doing and started spending more and more time trying to figure out what they were doing and why. They got into the "What Is?" question. "What is Painting?", "What is Art?" 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The answer that the book thus gives to the question “What is Painting?” is simple and clear. 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