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Edward Sankowski, in a paper published recently in this journal ('Free action, social institutions, and the definition of "Art"', Philosophical Studies 37 [1980], pp. 67-79), gave an interesting discussion of George Dickie's claim that a work of art must be an artifact. Sankowski says the following: I wish to maintain that Dickie is right in making artifacthood a necessary condition of artwordhood [presumably 'artworldhood' but incorrect in applying the notion of artifacthood so loosely that he considers simply displaying x, or holding x up for appreciation to constitute x as an artifact. 1 Actually, Dickie does not say that artifacthood is a necessary condition of 'artworldhood'; he says that it is a necessary condition for something's being a work of art. There are, after all, lots of things to which 'artworldhood' (understOod as 'being part of the artwofld') might be ascribed which are not artifacts -Zubin Metha, for example. But we can ignore this slip, since Sankowski usually puts the matter in the right way. We can then distinguish two claims which Sankowski is making in the passage I just quoted: (i) Artifacthood is a necessary condition for something's being a work of art;

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Author

Jeffrey Wieand

Publisher

Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0031-8116)

Published

1980

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)