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Losing Art for Art’s Sake in Wang Zhiyuan’s Work

Since Marcel Duchamp exhibited his pissoir (urinal, also called “Fountain”) in New York, a real landmark in art’s history, art has never been the same. Oscar Wilde’s Art of Art’s sake has yielded to the Avantgarde’s gesture, which took precedence over the object. Now we might consider Wang Zhiyuan as one of the contemporary artists...