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A: <\/strong>Imagine this<\/em><\/span><\/td>\nB: <\/strong>Look at this<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Something big wrapped in plastic<\/span><\/td>\nChristo Javacheff (2000)<\/span> Wrapped Reichstag Project for Berlin<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A pickled cow<\/span><\/td>\nDamien Hirst (1995)<\/span> Mother and Child, Divided<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Some bricks<\/span><\/td>\nWilliam Anastasi (1964)<\/span> En Route<\/a><\/em> (Stack of Bricks) Originally untitled<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A toilet<\/span><\/td>\nMarcel Duchamp (1917)<\/span> Fountain<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A bike seat with handlebars arranged like a bull<\/span><\/td>\nPablo Picasso (1943)<\/span> Head of a Bull<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dirty sheets<\/span><\/td>\nTracy Emin (1999)<\/span> I Think It Must Have Been Fear<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A light turning on\/off<\/span><\/td>\nMartin Creed (2007)<\/span> Work No. 227: The Lights Going On and Off<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A picture of a soup can<\/span><\/td>\nAndy Warhol (1968)<\/span> Soup Can<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A really big comic book<\/span><\/td>\nRoy Lichtenstein (1962)<\/span> Blam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
repeat ad nauseam<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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What do you get from column B that you don’t get from column A? Whatever you get has little to do with Art – if Art is anything more specific than ‘an experience.’ As Art therefore, the elements of column B are purely pointless.<\/span><\/p>\n

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