George Dickie (born 1926 in Palmetto, Florida) is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at University of Illinois at Chicago and one of the most influential philosophers of art working in the analytical tradition. His institutional theory of art inspired both supporters who produced variations on the theory as well as detractors.

Bibliography

• Aesthetics: An Introduction (Pegasus, 1971)
• Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis (Cornell University Press, 1974)
• The Art Circle (Haven Publications, 1984)
• The Century of Taste (Oxford Press, 1996)
• Evaluating Art (Temple University Press, 1988)
• Art and Value (Blackwell, 2001)

Aesthetics

George Dickie