artworld

noun

Etymology

From art + world, popularized by art critic Arthur Danto (1924–2013), see quotations.

  1. inherited from *weraldiz — “lifetime, human existence, world
  2. inherited from *weraldi
  3. inherited from weorold — “world
  4. inherited from world
  5. compounded as artworld — “art + world

Definitions

  1. A group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation,…

    A group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.

    • Yet while Gauguin went native, taking teenage mistresses, wearing local costumes and building his own wooden hut, his ultimate purpose was to impress the art world back home.
    • Probably he would maintain that at least some of the regards intended for artworks are common to all the artworlds there are and that it is this feature that unifies these artworlds as of a single type.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for artworld. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA