Philosophy Looks at the Arts
ed. Joseph Margolis
(Third Edition, 1987)
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10.
The Possibility of Art:
Remarks on a Proposal by Dickie
TED COHEN
[orig. 1973]
... Like much of Dickie's best work, this essay ["Defining Art"] is brief, direct, and convincing ... This time, however, I think he has tried to make things more simple and ingenuous than they can be.
The definition Dickie presents ...
A work of art in the descriptive sense is (1) an artifact (2) upon which some society or some sub-group of a society has conferred the status of candidate for appreciation .
...
it may be helpful to note
three special features
of Dickie's thesis.
