Affiliation:
1. Philosophy Department, Wayne State University , Detroit, MI , USA
Abstract
Abstract
Cultural theories of art were developed to account for the arthood of nonaesthetic and nonimitative artworks. Historical theories such as those proposed by Jerrold Levinson, James Carney, and Noël Carroll fail to account for the arthood of first art and ethnological objects, as does the disjunctive theory of Stephen Davies. An institutional (artworld-based) theory, such as George Dickie’s 1977 version, can account for the arthood of art made within the context of an artworld. But what of objects that are art now but were not made in an artworld context? I add a supplement to Dickie’s institutional theory: the concept of art by proxy.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Music,Philosophy,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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