Art as an Essentially Contested Concept  

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"Cyril Barrett defends the view that the concept of art is basically an evaluative concept and so does W. B. Gallie in his paper 'Art as an Essentially Contested Concept' (1956).' Gallie maintains that the history of the concept of art 'discloses a growing recognition of the fact that the word “art” is most usefully employed, not as a descriptive term standing for certain indicatable properties, but as an appraisive term accrediting a certain kind of achievement'.'" --The British journal of aesthetics - Volume 33


"What is valid in this first claim on behalf of philosophical aesthetics could, I think, be better expressed by saying: its history discloses a growing recognition of the fact that the word 'art' is most usefully employed, not as a descriptive term standing for certain indicatable properties, but as an appraisive term accrediting a certain kind of achievement. This truth (though, of course, differently phrased) seems to me to be made progressively clearer in the writings of idealist aestheticians, from" --Problems in criticism of the arts, p. 186, Holley Gene Duffield


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"Art as an Essentially Contested Concept" (1956) is an essay by Walter Bryce Gallie first published in The Philosophical Quarterly Vol.6, No.23, pp. 97–114.

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