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benhoyt on Nov 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Does a terabyte of illegal downloads constitute ar...

Is it art, then, or is it making a point? I don't deny that something can be both, but it seems to me much of the "crazy modern art" you see only succeeds in making a point, not in being beautiful.

jamesbritt on Nov 28, 2011 [–]

I take it you either think Duchamp's readymades are either beautiful or not art.

sp332 on Nov 28, 2011 | [–]

Duchamp himself would have argued that e.g. the Duchamp Fountain was not art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_%28Duchamp%29 Dada was an anti-art movement.

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