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Andreas Maeckler
1460 Answers to the Question: "What is Art...?"
284 pages
DuMont, Cologne 2000
1st. edition 2000 (10,000 copies) (revised and amended edition of "What is Art...?" 1987)

   

True Treasure Chest Quotes, quotes galore. All torn out of their historical context. Reassembled under headlines. Artists, painters, musicians, authors, philosophers, critics and collectors of all ages offer their definitions. In spite of this - or maybe even precisely because of this - the book becomes a gold mine of wisdom which says more than other art books ever could. The reader can and must interpret. He is forced to contribute, to ponder. He is sent on a voyage of discovery. The collision of so many opposed definitions of the word "art" leads to new insights. The elaborate index makes quotations accessible in their context. A recommendable book.

A reader from Luxembourg, Dec. 3rd. 2000. in: Amazon.de

 

   
 

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