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Why Modern Art Looks Like That

What the camera took away, leaving the window, and the urinal question

Muybridge · Kandinsky · Duchamp · Danto · 3 chapters · 8 min read

What the camera took away, leaving the window, and the urinal question.

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After 1839

  1. 01After the PhotographOn what the camera actually took, and who it put out of work.
  2. 02Leaving the WindowOn closing Alberti's window, and the objection it had to answer.
  3. 03The Urinal QuestionOn a urinal, a committee that promised to have no standards, and the question nobody has closed.