Howard S. Becker, who coined the term, describes it as, "the network of people whose cooperative activity, organized via their joint knowledge of conventional means of doing things, produce(s) the kind of art works that art world is noted for." (Becker, 1982, p. x)
Simon Frith (1996) describes three art worlds present in the music industry: the art music world, folk music world, and commercial music world. Timothy Taylor (2004) associates these worlds with three popular music genres: rock, rap, and pop, respectively.
Sources
Sanjeck, David (1999). Institutions. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture. California: Blackwell. ISBN 0631212639.
Becker, Howard S. (1982). Art Worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520052188.
Washburne, Christopher J. and Derno, Maiken (eds.) (2004). Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415943663.
Taylor, Timothy D. "Bad World Music".
Frith, Simon (1996). Performing Rites: on the Value of Popular Music. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
According to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), art theft is a growing problem that incurs annual losses upward of eight billion dollars, with cases that drag on for years, or, as much as 90 percent of the time, go unsolved.
At the FBI, Art Theft Program Manager Lynne Chaffinch came to her post with a museum background, degrees in anthropology and museum studies and with a knowledge of computers that has been essential in managing the Bureau’s National Stolen Art File, one of the key tools used internationally to recover stolen art.
Art detectives investigate forgeries, stolen or smuggled art and archaeological thefts using the same investigative techniques as other detectives would use, along with access to a specialized knowledge of art and of the particular stolen work.
In three-dimensional art, the impression of the relative size of the objects is falsified.
It should be added that the experts at the NEA do not seem to have recognized the extreme pertinence of these photographs to their own evaluation procedures, probably because the contents of the photos were obliterated by the required 35mm slides.
Art is art, not something similar to but different from and inferior to the artwork.
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