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The Institutional Theory of Art: If a Museum Shows It, Is It Art?
Arthur Danto saw Warhol's Brillo Boxes in 1964 and asked: why is this art when the ones in the supermarket aren't? Discover the institutional theory of art.
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3 articles tagged with "Marcel Duchamp"
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Dadaism: The Movement That Declared War on Art Itself
Dada emerged in Zurich in 1916 as a rejection of the civilization that produced World War I. Explore the Cabaret Voltaire, Duchamp, Hoch, and the anti-art movement that still provokes.
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Conceptual Art: When the Idea Is the Artwork
Explore Conceptual Art and how artists from Duchamp to Kosuth, LeWitt, and Yoko Ono made the idea the primary vehicle of art. Discover why this movement challenged every assumption about what art is and what it needs to be.