“What Makes Art, ‘Art’?” : Artworks That Made Us Ask This Question

The banana taped to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan, who priced it at $120,000, has sparked an age-old debate once again: what constitutes art? But Maurizio Cattelan was not the first one to make such an absurd artwork; there were many people before him who made controversial artworks.

Check out some artworks that shook the world of art over at CNN.

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The History of art is a history of loss. Or better look at the art as being somethnig subjected to evolution. The evolution of art may best be understood by a loss of habitat. The depiction of natur and people as one of the initial habitats of art have been taken over by photography (which is currently drawn to extinction by CCD). The expulsion of Art from lead it to the new field of abstract art.. And here it is after Pollock Kandinsky and all the others like a lost child in a wide area not knowing where it should belong to... . No wonder that it somtimes find it self as a banana taped to a wall... And as lost as art itself is as lost is any attempt to define "art".
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