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Art and Meaning

This TOK section looks at how we assign meaning to art and considers the question, what is art? Conversely, if something is meaningless, can it still be art? This topic is largely open to discussion as no hard and fast rule exists to define what is art or how to quantify meaning. Meaninglessness is a kind of meaning in itself, but I'll leave that up to the philosophers. Provocation #1 John Cage's 4'33 for piano 4′33″...


Tags: meaning, significance, Tok, Cage, Bueys

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