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Definition:
In Conceptual Art, the primary focus is placed upon the concept emobied in the piece.
This is contrasted with the focus being on the materials used or the skill of the artist
who produced it.
One of the characteristics of "conceptual artists" was to simply declare some common object a piece of art in an attempt to broaden the aesthetic experience from objects created for that purpose to one's entire life. This act also caused people to engage in a genuine dialogue about art itself, asking just what "art" is supposed to be, if someone can simply declare a can or a rock to be "art". Some famous members of this school include Hans Haacke and John Baldessari.
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What is Aesthetics?
In philosophy, aesthetics is the study of beauty and taste, whether in the form of the comic, the tragic or the sublime. Aesthetics has traditionally been part of other philosophical pursuits like the investigation of epistemology or ethics. However, it started to come into its own and become a more independent pursuit under Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who saw aesthetics as a unitary and self-sufficient type of human experience.What is Philosophy?
What is philosophy? Is there any point in studying philosophy, or is it a useless subject? What are the different branches of philosophy - what's the difference between aestheitcs and ethics? What's the difference between metaphysics and epistemology?
