f we are to compare popular art with high, fine art, then we will need some thing they have in common in order to locate a kind of scale along which their relative standing might be plotted. Almost all of this chapter is an attempt to do that by way of a description of art, along with other things, as consisting of objects around each of which is gathered what I call "a community of appre- ciation." With that in hand, it is possible for me to offer a very brief, highly tentative guess about what difference it might make whether such an object were an instance of popular art or of something more "refined.