Teles, Manuela: On the visibility of artworks and their aesthetic properties

_Humanities and Social Sciences Communications_ 12. 2025Supported by John McDowell’s conceptualism, Sonia Sedivy develops her conceptual realism as a response to a perplexity she identifies in Arthur C. Danto’s views on the theoretical and historical nature of artworks and their aesthetic properties. Namely, that at least some of these objects and properties are not visible. Considering the connection between the ques- tion on the visibility of artworks and their aesthetic properties and the bro