What Is Art?

What Is Art? is the forty-eighth volume in the Journal of Experimental Fiction series, a scripto-visual book in which Norman Conquest treats the title question not as something to answer but as something to assemble.

James Hugunin, in the publisher description, reads it as a hilarious scripto-visual Dadaist-Derridean quest to solve the impossible question, 'What is Art?' using, ironically, anti-art strategies — appropriation, violation, bad puns, found objects, offensive imagery, collage, and re-cycled past works culled from his own repertoire. Conquest, per Hugunin, uses the book as a literal potboiler, chopping up and dumping in his ingredients to simmer over the nature of creative intervention in our wacky (both cruel and comic) world.

Conquest is a verbo-visual prankster and the founder and editor of Black Scat Books. JEF also publishes his MOFA: The Museum of Fungible Art.