Brouwer, TNPA orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-7428 (2023) Two-Dimensional Theories of Art. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. ISSN 2161-2234
Abstract
What determines whether an object is an artwork? In this paper I consider what I will call ‘social’ theories of art, according to which the arthood of objects depends in some way on the art-related social practices that we have. Though such a dependence claim is plausible in principle, social theories of art tend to unpack the determining link between artworks and social practices in terms of intentional relations between the objects in question and the people involved in the relevant practices. This intentionalism has unappealing upshots. Drawing on two-dimensional approaches in social ontology, I show how social theories of art can be done differently, improving their prospects.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Thought Trust. This Open Access article is distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. |
Keywords: | artwork, artworld, institutionalism, definitions of art, theories of art, intentionalism, social ontology, two-dimensionalism, social construction |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 818633 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2023 11:58 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2023 11:58 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/tht202361619 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Philosophy Documentation Center |
Identification Number: | 10.5840/tht202361619 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200921 |