The Relationship between Object and Work in Peter Lamarque's Ontological Theory

A primary issue in art ontology is identifying the essence and the category of the ‎artwork. Philosophers have had various contradictory perspectives towards this issue. One of the most ‎significant views belongs to Peter Lamarque called the theory of “Object and artwork”. According to this ‎theory, an artwork has intrinsic features meaning that it essentially holds some features while holding ‎them in all possible worlds, is a genuine phenomenon discrete from human mind, meaning that its ‎existence is not dependent on the human minds, and that its habitat is not the mind but the external ‎world and is considered as a furniture to it, is different from natural and common objects, despite being ‎made of normal, day-to-day and even mundane objects, can be interpreted, can have various ‎interpretations, and even occasionally, artworks are born into existence by the interpretation of the ‎creator and the artist, possesses relative and intentional adjectives, meaning that although it is a genuine ‎phenomenon, it is dependent on the audience as well, and is also a cultural construction that requires an ‎audience community to live, this means that if the artwork loses its audience community, it is no longer ‎an artwork but merely an object‎.

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Ontology ، Object ، Artwork ، Intentionality ، Cultural Artefact ، Peter Lamarque