ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on issues relating to artists, particularly to what artists are doing when they do art. It considers three broad kinds: representation, expression, and change. Art as representation focuses on the notion that artists, by creating artworks, are trying to represent something or other. Obviously, many artworks represent. Portraits portray their subjects; photographs record what they the camera "sees"; some dance movements resemble, and are intended to resemble, the movements of, say, swans. As philosophers of art, and artists, take a critical look at this view of art as expression, some of them say that there is an important difference between the expression of the artist and the expressiveness in the artwork and the impact on the audience. Also among aestheticians, art as a means of social and political change has been acknowledged and embraced.
