什么是艺术Wht is Art.docVIP

What is Art?Any brief definition of art would oversimplify the matter, but we can say that all the definitions offered over the centuries include some notion of human agency, whether through manual skills as in the art of sailing or painting or photography , intellectual manipulation as in the art of politics , or public or personal expression as in the art of conversation . Recall that the word is etymologically related to artificial -- i.e., produced by human beings. Since this embraces many types of production that are not conventionally deemed to be art, perhaps a better term for them