The art world
Definition
The art world is all artists and non-artists involved in the production, commission, preservation, promotion, and sale of art.
Howard S. Becker, who coined the term, describes it as, "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produce(s) the kind of art works that art world is noted for." (Becker, 1982, p. x) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_world [Oct 2004]
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