artworld
artworld noun: a group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.
Noun
artworld (plural artworlds)
- 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
- Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home.2003 October 14, Alan Riding, “The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Forms of artworld
| plural | artworlds |
|---|---|
| alternative form | art world |
Origin of artworld
From art + world, popularized by art critic Arthur Danto (1924–2013), see quotations.
Questions about artworld
- What does artworld mean?
- Artworld means a group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.
- What part of speech is artworld?
- Artworld is a noun.
- What is the plural of artworld?
- The plural of artworld is artworlds.
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