What is art? On one side is a materialist or sociological view. Art is a commodity, a form of exchange. Look: this book won an award; this painting sold for millions; this play just got reviewed in the New Yorker. There’s a higher order version of this view. Art hangs in a museum and is defined by the people that go visit it and discuss it. Art symboliz…
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