' When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, these were the instructions. The flamingos are placed on the cover of this book for another reason: to start us asking questions.

Here is everything you need to know about the history, themes, thinkers and theories to get you started on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

The art scene today is one of appropriation—of remixing, reusing, and recombining the works of other artists.

As much as the philosophers who ask them, these are the things that raise philosophical questions and challenge philosophical theories: is it art? Is it beautiful? Is it immoral?