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Aesthetics

the argument that an artwork can look exactly like an ordinary thing, so what makes it art is interpretation and theory.

In aesthetics, transfiguration of the commonplace refers to the argument that an artwork can look exactly like an ordinary thing, so what makes it art is interpretation and theory. This meaning comes from Danto (1981) in The transfiguration of the commonplace.[1]

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Danto, A. C. (1981). The transfiguration of the commonplace. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674903456

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