Images of Works Cited

Images of Works Cited in Who Says That’s Art?

Works are listed in the order in which they are cited in the text. Examples cited in notes are arranged here as if they were part of the relevant section of text.

Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Postscript |

Introduction: If Art Can Be Anything, Then It Is Nothing

Chapter 1: What Exactly Are We Talking About?

Chapter 2: What Qualities Make a Work “Art”? And How and Why Do We Respond?

Chapter 3: What’s Wrong with “Abstract Art”?

Chapter 4: Anti-Art Is Not Art

Chapter 5: Do Photography, Video, and Film All Qualify as “Art”?

Chapter 6: Critics and Curators—Informed Guides or Intellectual Bullies?

Chapter 7: What Do Cognitive Science and Evolution Tell Us about Art?

Chapter 8: Rethinking Art Education

Chapter 9: The Dysfunctional Artworld—Who Is to Blame?

Chapter 10: The Pleasures and Rewards of Art—Real Art, That Is

Postscript: What Can Be Done?

Notes

  1. The text regarding Claus de Werve’s Virgin and Child incorrectly states that it alludes to Christ’s ultimate sacrifice. The Metropolitan Museum explains that the meaning relates instead to the Latin inscription on the bench, which reads: “From the beginning, and before the world, was I created” (Ecclesiasticus 24:14). By the thirteenth century—the Met further notes—the Church applied this text (which refers to Wisdom as a feminine entity) to discussions of Mary, but Christ as God incarnate was seen as “the personification of divine Wisdom on earth” and Mary was seen as “the vessel, or throne, that bore him.”