Chapter 3: What Is an Aesthetic Object?

3.1 “Westminster Abbey Bells Toll on Queen’s Birthday,” unknown, 2016, recording.


3.2 Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917, ceramic, glaze, and paint.


3.3 Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Marcel Duchamp, 1912, oil on canvas.


3.4 Merda d’artista, Piero Manzoni, 1961, assemblage.


3.5 The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky, 1913, performance.


3.6 4’ 33”, John Cage, 1952, performance.


3.7 Kroisos Kouros, unknown, c. 530 BCE, marble.


3.8 Salvator Mundi, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500, oil on walnut panel.


3.9 Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–19, oil on poplar panel.


3.10 Tableau I, Piet Mondrian, 1921, oil on canvas.


3.11 Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, 1941, film.


3.12 Jewels – ‘Rubies’ pas de deux, George Balanchine, 1967, performance.


3.13 Gianni Schicchi, Giacomo Puccini, 1918, performance.


3.14 Nas Is Like, Nas, 1999, performance.