This seminar takes this variety not just as a disagreement regarding the ontological status of art, among which one can choose, but as a symptom of a 

So, I will repeat: the work of art is an echo of a process, the movement of social matter itself. Social movements in general are about equality and justice, whereas autonomy is not. I would even daresay that autonomy produces inequality.

Rather than attempting to make conjectures about such difficult exegetical topics, this entry focuses primarily on contributions made by authors who explicitly address themselves at length to some of the aforementioned questions pertaining directly to the ontology of works of art, either in general or with reference to such major art forms as

The artist's sanction in contemporary art. 2005, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (4):315-326. Categories: Aesthetics, Ontology of art, 

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The ontology of works of art does not map neatly on to these classifications, however. In the plastic arts, a wide variety of media and structures are used. In music and drama, not all works are for performance; for instance, tape compositions and theatrical films are not. Not all works of a kind are organized at the same levels, and higher

Ontology and the Art of Tragedy is a sustained reflection on the principles and criteria from which to guide one's approach to Aristotle's Poetics.

The aim of this paper is to show that the ontology of artworks, as traditionally understood, may draw valuable theoretical inspiration from the latest manifestations of artistic activities which often go beyond art traditionally recognised as such by the institutional art world. Artification — that is combining art with non-art — is an example of this phenomenon. The goal is achieved in

In English-language philosophical publications, the earliest reference to the tale and to its implications for the ontology of art appears in Savile’s (1971) essay on Goodman’s Languages of Art (for background, see the entry on Goodman’s aesthetics). Subsequent references to the story’s philosophical implicati See more

The term ontology in information science arises from philosophy where it represents "the science of what is" (Smith 2004, p. 155).More specifically, the concept of the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes, and relations in every area of reality (Smith 2004) is used to add meaning in the context of information science.. In philosophy, there is no unique definition

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