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Seven Arts

This resulted in the rise of the New Criticism school and debate concerning the intentional fallacy. In the decades since, these ideas have been somewhat lost as the art market has learned to sell limited edition DVDs of video works, invitations to exclusive performance art pieces, and the objects left over from conceptual pieces. Many of these performances create works that are only understood by the elite who have been educated as to why an idea or video or piece of apparent garbage may be considered art. The marker of status becomes understanding the work instead of necessarily owning it, and the artwork remains an upper-class activity. Students are offered the occasion to visit one provincial and national destination each in the course of three years spent in the Department. These national study tours are integral towards creating platforms for dialogue beyond the IVS and Karachi. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individu