How to Reform Danto's Vehicle Fetishism
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Vehicle fetishism is a near-ubiquitous cultural attitude in theorizing about the arts. It commonly occurs as a background assumption, if not an explicit belief, that the physical vehicles, by means of which the artistic meaning or content of artworks is communicated, must somehow themselves be integral parts of the relevant artworks. Of course, such a primitivist or magical view about the power or centrality of vehicles has long since been abandoned in connection with linguistic communication. No one thinks that linguistic words or sentences, whether construed as types or as tokens, are somehow integral parts of the meaningful propositions that they are used to express. Their purely symbolic or representational role in communication is obvious to all. Yet, by contrast, virtually everyone who theorizes about the arts assumes that concrete artistic vehicles, such as painted canvases or musical performances, are either identical with artworks, or at least that they are integral parts of the relevant artworks. Thus is artistic communication fetishized, via a belief in obscure artistic powers of concrete vehicles themselves, mysteriously independent of their legitimate representational roles in expressing artistic meanings.
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