Artworld

Quick meaning: Artworld is a noun meaning A group or network of people involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, criticism, and sale of art.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

Rather than being in conflict, it is more accurate to suggest that these institutions lack a clear understanding of how they relate to each other under the emergence of an academy artworld.

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.

Fashion, as it happens, favors certain rows of the style matrix: museums, connoisseurs, and others are makeweights in the Artworld. […] Brillo boxes enter the artworld with that same tonic incongruity the commedia dell'arte characters bring into Ariadne auf Naxos.

Word Forms

• artworlds
• art world

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include artistdom, artisanry, artspeak, andartes, eco-art, arena.

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