What Art Is Online

Supplement to What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Open Court, 2000)
by Louis Torres & Michelle Marder Kamhi

Appendix A - Part I

New Forms of Art

Reprinted from What Art Is
For examples invented (or learned of) since the book's printing, see Part II below.

Following are some of the alleged art forms invented since the beginning of the twentieth century. As a rule, if the term art is preceded by qualifiers such as conceptual, incendiary, or Pop, one can be reasonably certain that the work in question is not art by the standards outlined in this book.

Appendix A - Part II

New Forms of 'Art'

In the Introduction to What Art Is, we referred to the "bizarre alleged art forms [that] have proliferated at a dizzying rate" since the first decade of the twentieth century. Appendix A (reprinted above from the book) cites examples then known to us. Listed below are examples invented--or learned of--since the book's publication. Some terms overlap in meaning.

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