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First Art, Art-Unconscious Art, and Non-Western Art "[] my definition thus allows [] for art makers ignorant of all artworks, all art activities, and all institutions of art" (Levinson 1990a: 11)."That it is our concept [of art we are analysing], however, and that it has roots in our tradition, by no means entails that it has no application to periods and places remote from, and perhaps causally isolated from, modern Western culture, or worse, that it is irrelevant to those other times and places" (Levinson 1993: 413). INTRODUCTIONAvant-garde art has drastically changed our thinking on art.In the 20 th century, philosophers of art have been mainly concerned with developing approaches to art that can accommodate the many creations the avant-garde produced and continues to produce: Clive Bell's formalism, for example, was motivated by neo-impressionism (Bell 2003: 108), while Arthur Danto's historical essentialism was concerned with readymades (Danto 1992: 6).The 20 th century posed yet
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First Art, Art-Unconscious Art, and Non-Western Art "[] my definition thus allows [] for art makers ignorant of all artworks, all art activities, and all institutions of art" (Levinson 1990a: 11)."That it is our concept [of art we are analysing], however, and that it has roots in our tradition, by no means entails that it has no application to periods and places remote from, and perhaps causally isolated from, modern Western culture, or worse, that it is irrelevant to those other times and places" (Levinson 1993: 413). INTRODUCTIONAvant-garde art has drastically changed our thinking on art.In the 20 th century, philosophers of art have been mainly concerned with developing approaches to art that can accommodate the many creations the avant-garde produced and continues to produce: Clive Bell's formalism, for example, was motivated by neo-impressionism (Bell 2003: 108), while Arthur Danto's historical essentialism was concerned with readymades (Danto 1992: 6).The 20 th century posed yet
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