Plato Play-Doh

By Zen Punkist

Plato, De La Play-Doh,

A La Play-Doh

Plato claimed art is neither useful, nor true (the painting of a bed is no good to sleep on), since he considered ordinary material things mimetic objects, imitations of transcendent forms or structures. The best painting of a bed would be only an "imitation of an imitation."

This is a picture of a sculpture made of play-doh modeled after a picture of a sculpture of Plato.