The thesis examines certain constructionist aspects of contemporary artistic endeavor. Art is analyzed through a gap between conceptual openness and tangible occurrence. It is conceptualized in opposition to the search for a unified definition based on the ability to identify an unchangeable ontological base of all that is artistic. On the contrary, the question of the nature of art is superseded by the idea of art as an open concept. A dynamically emerging collective project, shaped by a particular social context within which it begins to exist. Art world, a category of descriptive tools borrowed from Danto and Becker, is the key analytical element of the text. Supplemented by the reflections of Morris Weitz, the project as a whole, draws on the horizons of contemporaneity, dealing with works which can be recognized as contemporary, regardless of their spatiotemporal positioning
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