The Normative Structure of Art

Review of Metaphysics 39 (3):415 - 431 (1986)
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THE RELATIONSHIP between the artist, his work, and its audience will become clearer when we realize that works of art are not natural kinds like "eel" and "man," nor are they physical objects, but are instead, what I will call "normative-kinds."

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Susan Jill Wilsmore
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