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For a frame of reference, let's stick with the body adornment of tribal
Your comments make it sound almost as if it is the quality which makes a
thing a work of art. But looking behind the production itself, what is the
intent of the art? Why do we study art history and consider tattooing of
say, the aboriginal people as being art? Isn't art a product of and
reaction to one's culture? Isn't art a way of seeing life through someone
Yes, the answers to the question "what is art?" are infinite. But that
still leaves the question of what it is that makes a work... art.