"What We Talk About When We Talk About Art

The lecture's called What We Talk About When We Talk About Art, a nod, of course, to Raymond Carver's collection of short stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Broadly, what I try to do is come to some broad conclusions about … well, about what we talk about when we talk about art! Put a little more clearly, I try to come to some broad conclusions about what sorts of things works of art actually are. Here's a rough - a very rough - abstract: