Art historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art. In the late 1800s, photography and cinema were both considered not to be art, and prominent critics argued that early cubist paintings were not art. Disputes about what does and does not count as art continue to occur today.
The difference between art which is trite and a...
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Art historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art. In the late 1800s, photography and cinema were both considered not to be art, and prominent critics argued that early cubist paintings were not art. Disputes about what does and does not count as art continue to occur today.
The difference between art which is trite and art which is significant can be elusive. Aesthetics and the philosophy of art, often engage in disputes about the best way to define art, and some disputes about whether to consider something art or not, wind up revolving around our definition. By its original and broadest definition, art (from the Latin ars, meaning "skill" or "craft") is the product or process of the effective application of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills; this meaning is preserved in such phrases as "liberal arts" and "martial arts". However, in the...
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