Artworld
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 2 the community of people interested in the arts wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From art + world, popularized by art critic Arthur Danto (1924–2013), see quotations.
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