Games do not need to "grow up" or become like movies. That is a perception issue, but games actually generate culture rather than exploit it, and should be considered the primary medium of the next century.
31. Functional Institutional
A work of art in the classificatory sense is 1)
The functionalist holds that there is some
an artefact 2) upon which some person or
distinctive need met by art in our lives and
persons acting on behalf of a certain social
that it is in terms of this need that art is to be
institution (the artworld) has conferred the
defined. While art might meet many interests
status of candidate for appreciation.
– for example it might be valued as a
financial investment – such interests explain - Aesthetics: An Introduction
why artworks might be referred to and
appreciated as investments and the like, but
they do not explain why we have the concept
of art and appreciate artworks qua art. The
primary value of art is hedonic, rather than
moral or pragmatic.
- Functional and Procedural Definitions of Art,
Journal of Aesthetic Education 1990
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