Art & Quot. Object

1. "The distinction between art and mass production was once sacrosanct...Duchamp added flexibility." I think like the drifting/growing English language, the language of art had an enormous growth spurt when addressing this issue that continues to challenge conventional notions of art.

Marcel Duchamp

2.What was happening after WWI (the stimmung of defeat/Weiner Republic) and were the Dadaists French/German?

Andy Warhol

3. Appropriation

Strictly speaking, this strategy involves the direct duplication, copying or incorporation of an image (painting, photograph, etc.) from an identified source by an artist who represents it in a different context, thus completely altering its meaning and questioning notions of originality and authenticity. Later, appropriation came to include the reinterpretation of images from fine art or mass media sources, and often the combining of various images derived from various sources. The purpose of appropriation could be a political statement, an ironic gesture, a straight-up homage, or the desire to strengthen the power and impact of a particular image through reinterpretation of it.

4. This mix-up between the symbol and the thing becomes even more evident when looking at photography redoubling itself:

Sherrie Levine

Jeff Koons

5. What determines if something is art? What determines if it is good art?

Katharina Fritsch

Cornelia Parker

Liza Lou

Charles Ledray