Harry Shearer shrugs off the question:
Mr. Shearer shrugged off the question. “Oh, I don’t know,” he said. “Aren’t we 40 years too late for that — didn’t Andy Warhol destroy that question? It’s art because of the fact that it’s happening in an art context.”So there, Philistines!
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I don't know if it's art, but I like it.
ReplyDeleteWhat Harry Shearer espouses is called the institutional theory of art and serious aesthetes take such questions very seriously.
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"Arts" Editor Responds
ReplyDeleteWe're w/ Harry on this one. You call it "art" & you slap it in an institution, it's art.
Even if the Philistines don't like it.