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Aesthetics, Art History & Cultural Institutions

Fountain — the blurred boundary between art and everyday life

Fountain is a 1917 work produced by Marcel Duchamp, who was know as the vanguard of modern art and responsible for revolutionary development in multiple art forms. The popular version of this art piece’s creation is that Duchamp purchased a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J. L. Mott Iron Works. He brought the urinal to his …

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What is art?

It’s interesting to me that we as a society consistently contest what justifies something as art. Everyone sees the world through a different lens, and in my opinion, it’s unjust to personally qualify something as artistic based on personal assumptions. Even if the majority of society discredits a piece of work, all it takes is …

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