The article introduces two temporally apart versions of the notion of "art world" formulated by the philosopher Arthur C. Danto (1924-2013). The first, as introduced in the classic 1964 article "The artworld", in reply to his philosophical circle and beyond the apparent radicalism of the exemplars presented as works of art at that time; and the second, introduced in the 1992 essay "The art world revisited: comedies of similarities", as a final attempt to deviate his theory from the shadow of George Dickie's Institutional Theory and from the notion of art world thus implied.
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Arthur C. Danto; art world; indiscernible counterparts; George Dickie; Institutional Theory of Art
