Many artists, art critics, and poets suggest that an aesthetic appreciation of artworks may modify our perception of the world, including quotidian things and scenes. I call this Art-to-World, AtW. Focusing on visual artworks, in this paper I articulate an empirically-informed account of AtW that is based on content-related views of aesthetic experience, and on Goodman’s and Elgin’s concept of exemplification. An aesthetic encounter with artworks demands paying attention to its aesthetic, expressive, or design properties that realize its purpose. Attention to these properties make percipients better able to spot them in other entities and scenes as well. The upshot is that an aesthetic commerce with artworks enlarges the scope of what we are able to see and has therefore momentous epistemic consequences.

许多艺术家，艺术评论家和诗人认为，对艺术品的审美欣赏可能会改变我们对世界的感知，包括日常事物和场景。我称此为“艺术到世界”，AtW。在本文中，我将重点放在视觉艺术品上，以基于经验的方式对AtW进行说明，该说明基于与内容相关的审美经验观点，以及古德曼（Goodman）和埃尔金（Elgin）的示范概念。与艺术品的美学相遇要求关注其实现目标的美学，表现力或设计属性。对这些属性的关注使善意者也能够更好地将其发现在其他实体和场景中。结果是，艺术品的审美交易扩大了我们所能看到的范围，因此产生了重大的认识论后果。