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    This document is an activity guide for a unit on defining art. It includes two activities: 1) determining whether a quote by Marcel Duchamp or Bertolt Brecht deals more with the creation or experience of art, and 2) clarifying whether Denis Dutton's naturalistic approach to defining art agrees with Urist Green's view that the definition of art should be open and evolving. For the first activity, the document explains that Brecht's quote regards the creation of art as a tool to shape reality, while Duchamp's quote refers to the experience of art as the gap between intention and realization. For the second activity, the document states that Dutton's approach mostly disagrees with Green's view, as

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    This document is an activity guide for a unit on defining art. It includes two activities: 1) determining whether a quote by Marcel Duchamp or Bertolt Brecht deals more with the creation or experience of art, and 2) clarifying whether Denis Dutton's naturalistic approach to defining art agrees with Urist Green's view that the definition of art should be open and evolving. For the first activity, the document explains that Brecht's quote regards the creation of art as a tool to shape reality, while Duchamp's quote refers to the experience of art as the gap between intention and realization. For the second activity, the document states that Dutton's approach mostly disagrees with Green's view, as

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    This document is an activity guide for a unit on defining art. It includes two activities: 1) determining whether a quote by Marcel Duchamp or Bertolt Brecht deals more with the creation or experience of art, and 2) clarifying whether Denis Dutton's naturalistic approach to defining art agrees with Urist Green's view that the definition of art should be open and evolving. For the first activity, the document explains that Brecht's quote regards the creation of art as a tool to shape reality, while Duchamp's quote refers to the experience of art as the gap between intention and realization. For the second activity, the document states that Dutton's approach mostly disagrees with Green's view, as

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    Arts 1 (MN)
    BSA 3 | 2018-05766 Activity Guide for Unit 1

    Week 1: Defining Art


    Activity Guide-Week 1

    1. Building on Urist Green’s explanations in the video, determine which quote deals more with “the
    creation of art” and which one is more about “the experience of art”:

    Marcel Duchamp: “Art is the gap.”


    Bertolt Brecht: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

    Explain your answer and elaborate on Duchamp’s and Brecht’s definitions.

    Brecht’s statement deals more with the “creation of art, while Duchamp’s is on “the experience of art.”

    I believe Brecht viewed art to be more than just a means of projecting reality, but rather, a tool capable
    of challenging and influencing reality through the creation of informative art. Brecht was a German
    playwright and director in the 20th century. He believed that art should show what the world could and
    should be. He was quite political with his plays and wanted to teach the audience that theatre was a
    platform for political education and knowledge (Bennetts-Williams, 2016).

    By contrast, Duchamp described art as a gap that represents the difference between intention and
    realization (Murray, 2013). In Green’s words: “It’s that space between the art and the appreciator, the
    artist and the art.” In terms of art and the appreciator, I believe this gap to be how art affects people –
    the experience. It is comprised by an array of subjective responses from the world that surrounds it.
    Meanwhile, whether these effects are intended or not serves as the gap between the artist and the art.
    The gap forms as intended effects are not realized, while other unintended effects take place instead.

    2. Clarify whether or not Dutton’s “naturalistic” approach agrees with Urist Green’s position that art
    “should be an open and evolving concept.”

    Dutton’s “naturalistic” approach mostly disagrees with Green’s position. I say ‘mostly’ because there
    is also some area of agreement, which in my opinion, is worth noting.

    Green claims that permanently defining art may constrain potential movements to “new directions.” I
    believe such contention is made with the thought that art is not a fixed concept; that the realms confining
    the things currently considered art may expand at some point. Meanwhile, Dutton argues that: “The arts
    remain what they are, and will be.” In my interpretation, he is saying that art is not a nebulous concept;
    that there are in fact identifiable universal notions of what art is, which also lay the foundations for his
    list of core items. He further adds that the list may be adjusted, but it can still be expected to remain
    largely intact into the foreseeable future – contrary to Green’s idea of what the future may hold.

    On the other hand, the two ideas have some similarity insofar as they both keep the doors open for
    further meaningful discourse on the subject. In fact, this is where Dutton sought to be of aid – allowing
    for the easier navigation of remote territories by demarcating an uncontroversial center.
    References:

    Bennett-Williams, Keeki. “Directed Performance – Essay.” KeekiBennetts, 2016, https://keekibennetts.


    wordpress.com/2016/03/01/art-is-not-a-mirror-held-up-to-reality-but-a-hammer-with-which-
    to-shape-it-bertolt-brecht/. Accessed 9 July 2021.

    Murray, Caitlin. “How to Isolate the Infrathin: Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Roussel and the Infrathin.”
    Impossible Projects, 2013, http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/isolating-the-infrathin.
    Accessed 9 July 2021.

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