(Originally written March 13, 2007 in Book 16)
Class Notes
Morris Weitz
Art is undefinable. That is, no necessary and sufficient conditions can be given.
Aesthetic theory is wrong in principle.
Aesthetic theories are not falsifiable or verifiable and hence, worthless.
Art as a category learns the Wittgensteinian concept of family resemblance to each other.
The Institutional theory of Art
Dickie & Danto
Danto
To see art one needs theories of art. The art world is logically dependent on theory.
Dickie
Art as a social institution.
Works of art are artifacts defined by previous similar objects.
Dickie uses Wittgenstein's family resemblance.
Admits that his theory has a problem in that it cannot produce a first piece of art.
Art World
To create a piece of art one must make:
1) An artifact
2) Present it as art to the art world
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