Dickie Question 2

What is the artworld for Dickie? Is there any way we can officially define the artworld or is everybody in artworld? Is the invention of the artworld too critical and centralized on certain people who claim to be artistic?

The artworld for Dickie, though poorly and loosely defined, is the worldly group of all artists, but Dickie also says that there are inner groups in the artworld. Regardless, the artworld is all creative people in the world, including engineers and building people. However, by human nature we are all creative, constructing (sometimes destructive) individuals and should all be included in the artworld's circle. So, who then is excluded from the artworld?

There is, I believe, some elite group in the artworld, or out of the artworld (critics perhaps?), who decide who is an artist and who is not. However, this is completely unreliable and is the major flaw in Dickie's plan for the world. How do we decide? Any which way we decide will have judgment and bias layered on top of it. Therefore, I think one of the best ways to avoid this is to invoke Leo Tolstoy's philosophy of the artist's sincerity and determine the artist by sincerity. Of course, this determination of sincerity would have to be done on a person-to-person basis and would take a long time but would establish who is in the inner circle of the artworld, the outer circle, and not at all in the artworld.