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artworlds

artworlds is the plural 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

Questions about artworlds

What is artworlds the plural of?
Artworlds is the plural of artworld.

Words near artworlds in the dictionary

  1. artworker
  2. artworkers
  3. artworking
  4. artworks
  5. artworld
  6. artworlds
  7. arty
  8. arty-crafty
  9. arty-farties
  10. arty-farty
  11. artyfarties

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