Definition of "art object" [art object]

• A work of art of some artistic value (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Essai sur la nature, le but et les moyens de l'imitation dans les beaux arts (1823), is based on the audience's awareness that the art object is in fact an art object and that the audience will both cooperate with and submerge itself in the illusion (Gombrich, 1948)."