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Editorial
Art and Soul
by Rick Lewis
Art goes back to the earliest ages of humanity. Graceful, stylised cave paintings of deer and hunters show both our kinship and our differences from our ancestors. Some would say that the patterns on the edges of broken pieces of prehistoric pottery are art too. What links them to Tracey Emin’s unmade bed, Jeff Koons’ kitsch dogs or Damien Hirst’s pickled shark, so that we can call them all by the same name of Art?
Anja Steinbauer in her introduction points out that the experts are divided over whether there could even be a single set of criteria to distinguish art from non-art. Yet we all have an idea, roughly, of when to use the word.
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