Joseph Kosuth starts off one of his most famous articles with the statement, “The twentieth century brought in a time which could be called “the end of philosophy and the beginning of art” (1). This discussion shall situate itself in a like arena only for the reason that the work in question is about the [...]
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Religious architecture seemingly, unlike most other architecture, revolves less around a buildings functionality but more around the conceptual value of the building – not, “how do we use it?” but, “why and what do we use it for”. The suggestion is that churches have altars for symbolic reasons and that these altars tell us something [...]
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Fosters primary belief is that art, starting no less than twenty-three years prior to now, represents no art yet conceived. Of course, it fits into a historical hierarchy of past art, but only in means on a continuity of time. Art now, so Foster believes, is more concerned with relating the everyday, the personal and [...]
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