On the contrary, to the extent something intends to "express, explore, or otherwise stimulate human mind," it isn't art - it's rhetoric, or science, or entertai

On the contrary, to the extent something intends to "express, explore, or otherwise stimulate human mind," it isn't art - it's rhetoric, or science, or entertainment. Obviously lots of works of art were created for some end (renaissance paintings functioned as religious and political propaganda; Shakespeare's plays are entertaining), but they are art to the extent that they step back from that end, and display what Kant calls "purposiveness without particular purpose."