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For ages works of art have helped to constitute the shared experience of the world. In traditional societies it was the religious conviction that unified the community; in the contemporary world the metre for both artists and viewers is established by the institution: the Academia, the authority of the museum. In the times of the avant-garde movements the conventions ruling creativity as well as the forms of reception became diversified, and the resulting plurality of stances and viewpoints can be seen through three perspectives. The first one unites those artists and viewers who claim that a work of art is a political tool. Others form a community based on the principle that art itself is fundamentally political, as defined by Jacques Rancière. Finally, as Hans Belting argues, what bonds the community might be its relation to time, space and death.