Institutions and the Artworld – A Critical Note
Contemporary theories of institutions as clusters of stable solutions to recurrent coordination problems can illuminate and explain some unresolved difficulties and problems adhering to institutional definitions of art initiated by George Dickie and Arthur Danto. Their account of what confers upon o...
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| description | Contemporary theories of institutions as clusters of stable solutions to recurrent coordination problems can illuminate and explain some unresolved difficulties and problems adhering to institutional definitions of art initiated by George Dickie and Arthur Danto. Their account of what confers upon objects their institutional character does not fit well with current work on institutions and social ontology. The claim that “the artworld” confers the status of “art” onto objects remains utterly mysterious. The “artworld” is a generic notion that designates a sphere of human activity that involves practices that create goals that have led to the emergence of formal and informal institutions. But those institutions, rather than magically “creating” objects subjected to esthetic appreciation, merely solve familiar and ubiquitous coordination problems created by artistic activity in ways other institutions in other areas (science, religion, education…) solve similar and/or analogous coordination problems. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4bf963e5e0d6441086de3a7e041301582023-09-02T10:33:23ZengUniversity of ViennaJournal of Social Ontology2196-96552196-96632018-02-0141536610.1515/jso-2017-0008jso-2017-0008Institutions and the Artworld – A Critical NoteBuekens Filip0Smit JP1KU Leuven, Philosophy, K. Mercierplein 2, Leuven, BelgiumUniversity of Stellenbosch, Philosophy, Private Bag X1, Matieland, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaContemporary theories of institutions as clusters of stable solutions to recurrent coordination problems can illuminate and explain some unresolved difficulties and problems adhering to institutional definitions of art initiated by George Dickie and Arthur Danto. Their account of what confers upon objects their institutional character does not fit well with current work on institutions and social ontology. The claim that “the artworld” confers the status of “art” onto objects remains utterly mysterious. The “artworld” is a generic notion that designates a sphere of human activity that involves practices that create goals that have led to the emergence of formal and informal institutions. But those institutions, rather than magically “creating” objects subjected to esthetic appreciation, merely solve familiar and ubiquitous coordination problems created by artistic activity in ways other institutions in other areas (science, religion, education…) solve similar and/or analogous coordination problems.https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2017-0008john searlefrancesco gualagame theoryartartworld institutions |
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