Art about art (

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• Art about art ( Art feeds on art.)
• A ready-made adjusted (Duchamp)
• Self-conscious debt to past part (with a
  vengeance)
• Self-consciously acknowledges the role of
• destruction in the creative process
• Explores untraditional medium (bound books)
• A conceptual piece which challenges ideas about
• originality
• Embraces art determined by the laws of chance
• (Dada)
• Performance art/installation
• Impersonal technique, invisible style
• Criticizes aesthetics (beauty), ownership (art as
  
• investment), the canon of masterpieces, and
• the role and meaning of museum labels

Robert Jacobs The History of Art, Third Edition
(1922), Addresses the concerns of Western Art
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