“What is art’?” In your response to the readings and videos this week, please address the following:
Identify a parameter that you previously did not consider a factor in defining art; what about it, exactly, surprised you? What parameters outlined in this week’s readings and videos, to you, are the most important in generating a clearer definition of art? Several controversial pieces of art were mentioned in this week’s content. Comment on an example, or draw from a work of art familiar to you, that you struggle to consider art. Why? Finally, Chatterjee concludes that “art signals our freedom’? How do recent and emerging forms of art, and new media support this idea?