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Quotes from Art As a Social System — Niklas Luhmann

1927–1998 Germany

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The art system operates on its own terms, but an observer of art can choose many different distinctions to indicate what he observes.

Art As a Social System (2000)

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself?

Art As a Social System (2000)

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