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Originally Posted by LaBelleDameSansMerci
But people are the ones who invented the concept of art, so we can, technically, change it. We *have* changed it. Most most MOST modern or contemporary art would not have been considered art 170 years ago.
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"The first and broadest sense of art is the one that has remained closest to the older Latin meaning, which roughly translates to "skill" or "craft," and also from an Indo-European root meaning "arrangement" or "to arrange". In this sense, art is whatever is described as having undergone a deliberate process of arrangement by an agent. A few examples where this meaning proves very broad include artifact, artificial, artifice, artillery, medical arts, and military arts. However, there are many other colloquial uses of the word, all with some relation to its etymology."
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