Danto A.C. The Artworld

American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Sixty-First Annual Meeting. (Oct. 15, 1964). — The Journal of Philosophy. — Vol. 61. — No. 19. — p. 571-584.The 1964 essay "The Artworld" in which Danto coined the term “artworld” (as opposed to the existing "art world", though they mean much the same), by which he meant cultural context or “an atmosphere of art theory”, first appeared in The Journal of Philosophy and has since been widely reprinted. It has had considerable influence on aesthetic philosophy and, according to professor of philosophy Stephen David Ross, "especially upon George Dickie's institutional theory of art. Dickie defines an art work as an artifact 'which has had conferred upon it the status of candidate for appreciation by some person or persons acting in behalf of a certain social institution (the artworld)' (p. 43.)"