Artists are just a gallery's means of creating another gallery: Memetics in the field of art history

Abstract

The article analyses the possibility of memetics in art history. Author suggests the employment of memetics as an inspirational metaphor or analogy.

Thus, we can overcome the interdisciplinary distrust.

Keywords

• memetics
• art history
• interdisciplinarity
• metaphors in science
• W. J. T. Mitchell
• Daniel Dennett