Yet at the identical time, the horrific imagery demonstrates Goya’s keen creative capability in composition and execution and produces fitting social and political outrage. Thus, the controversy continues as to what mode of aesthetic satisfaction, if any, is required to outline ‘art’. The authentic Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, 1917, photographed by Alfred Stieglitz on the 291 after the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit. Stieglitz used a backdrop of The Warriors by Marsden Hartley to photograph the urinal. Disputes as as to if or not to classify something as a work of art are known as classificatory disputes about art.…
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