Serious questions: Where does anime/stuff like pic related fall

>>1472885
>Where does anime/stuff like pic related fall in art history?
Contemporary.

>>1472885
>anime
>art

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon

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>>1472953
Anything is art as long as you believe it to be

>>1473009
anything can be art but not everything is art. art history isn't the study of everything

>>1473010
It is the study of a particular set of subjective tastes, those of the boomer champagne socialist elite who still cling to memories of their drug addled youth.

>>1473031
not really, formalism hasn't been big in decades

Anime > Manga > Tezuka > Disney > Comic strips > Poltical cartoons or somethin' > Medieval tapestries?

>>1474805
>chinese cartoons
>greater than anything

>>1474805
>anime > manga
Okay, kiddo

>>1475763
>>1475984
It's a genealogy you quick triggered faggots. Fuck's sake, it's like you're looking for reasons to act like assholes.

Illustration. That's the word you're looking for. Comic books, pinups, cartoon advertisement posters, etc. That all falls under the umbrella.

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>entertainment=art

>>1476104
Pretty much, yeah.

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>>1476104
>Music and books aren't arts
By that definition, paintings aren't art either if you're entertained by them

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>>1476129
>the original purpose of something is the same thing as what I get from it
L'art pour l'art.