The Concept of “Art” – revisited

What do we talk about when we talk about art? It’s a question that few people ask themselves when they talk about art. They bubble without a definition or explanation of how the word art and the term “art” are constituted, established, transformed. In the following, Stefan Oehm attempts to formulate a solution with reference to Rudi Keller’s concept of language change and H.P. Grice’s action-theoretical model.