Word.ws English Dictionary

art world

art world is the alternative form of artworld.

Meaning of artworld

Noun

artworld (plural artworlds)

  1. A group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.
    • Fashion, as it happens, favors certain rows of the style matrix: museums, connoisseurs, and others are makeweights in the Artworld. […] Brillo boxes enter the artworld with that same tonic incongruity the commedia dell'arte characters bring into Ariadne auf Naxos.1964 October 15, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 61, number 19, page 584

Forms of art world

pluralart worlds

Questions about art world

What is art world the alternative form of?
Art world is the alternative form of artworld.

Words near art world in the dictionary

  1. art tracks
  2. art union
  3. art unions
  4. art up
  5. art work
  6. art world
  7. art worlds
  8. art-historical
  9. art-house
  10. art-houses
  11. art-washing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: art world (page history and authors); artworld (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “art world.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/art_world. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.