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Well, Baudrillard[1] would say that the abstraction just becomes indistinguishable from what it abstracts. So, the celebrity of art becomes the abstraction for it, and then the abstraction itself becomes art. Eventually another abstraction has to take its place, ad infinitum.

I think I prefer Drew Struzan's definition though. It's something that asks a question, which ultimately only you can answer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation



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