ABSTRACT
The traditionalist's concept of art is basically the concept of "fine art", which encompasses music, poetry, painting, sculpture and dance. Some other art forms, particularly architecture, are somewhere on the margins and literature. The formidable art historian Paul Kristeller argued that the concept of the fine arts had not always been with us but in fact is a fairly recent innovation. In the visual arts, modernism is usually taken to start around the 1860s with the work of Manet. According to at least one form of modernism, this crisis of confidence in the arts brought with it its own solution. The modernist concept of the arts underestimates the complexity of the twentieth-century art world. Arguably, it does give an accurate description of a certain trajectory that ran through the visual arts. Both George Dickie and Jerrold Levinson claim that objects are put in the right relation to the institution of art via the intentions of the artist.
