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Louis Doulas
LOUIS DOULAS is a Master’s candidate in Philosophy at Brandeis University.
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Comments on Isabelle Graw’s Concept of Painting
By Louis Doulas
Our concept of painting is notoriously vague. Arguably, any of our categories and concepts of art are. But the theoretical means used to characterize and essentialize painting over the previous several decades is all too well known; today it’s uncontroversially understood that painting constitutes almost anything, if it does not already constitute everything.
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