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Ideas of Arthur C. Danto, by Text

[American, b.1924, Professor at Columbia University.]

1964	The Artworld

II

p.32

20328

A thing is only seen as art in an 'artworld', which has a theory and a history

p.581

p.191

20441

An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it