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Danto, Arthur C. | November 9, 1998 issue

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The article presents the author's views on a luminous painting of a puma next to a tree that he and a colleague of his happened to see at an exhibition. Neither of us happened to know much about pumas, let alone their habitat, but even so we felt that the puma and that particular tree would not normally share an environment. In fact, there is uncertainty as to whether the magnificent feline is a puma at all it has also been identified as a lioness or a lynx. Scholars have noted that the animal is too stocky and its coat too long for a lioness, while the lower jaw is too heavy for a puma. The tree too has a botanical indeterminacy.

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PAINTING; PUMAS; HABITAT (Ecology); EXHIBITIONS; ART; SCHOLARS
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