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| 20329 | A work of art is an artifact created for the artworld |
| Full Idea: A work of art is an artifact of a kind created to be presented to an artworld public. | |||
| From: George Dickie (The New Institutional Theory of Art [1983], p.53) | |||
| A reaction: This is the culminating definition in his paper, deriving originally from Danto, and an improvement of his earlier more complex definition. Since this definition amounts to 'this is art if I say it is art', it doesn't seem to reveal much. |