artwork - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

An essay titled for this sort of object includes a lengthy description of a Greek temple to introduce the concepts of World and Earth. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this type of object in the title of an essay that discusses three definitions of a “thing” but rejects all three. An essay titled for this sort of object argues their unique and authentic value derives from a secular form of ritual.

ANSWER: artwork [or works of art; accept “The Origin of the Work of Art” or “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”]

[10e] The Origin of the Work of Art was written by this thinker, who reuses the notion of equipment as “ready-to-hand” from his earlier magnum opus, Being and Time.

ANSWER: Martin Heidegger

[10h] Original language term required. Heidegger concludes that the essence of art lies in this concept since art discloses a world. Heidegger carefully distinguishes his translation of this concept as “unconcealedness” from others referring to propositional correctness.

ANSWER: aletheia [or alethia]

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Summary


California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	6.67	33%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	12.22	78%	22%	22%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	9	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	10.00	67%	17%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	12.86	86%	29%	14%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	83%	50%	33%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%

Data


UCSD B	UCLA A	0	10	0	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	0	10	0	10
UCSD A	UC Irvine	0	10	0	10
Arizona State	UCSD C	0	10	0	10
Central Florida B	Central Florida C	0	0	0	0
Florida A	Florida B	0	0	0	0
Central Florida A	Florida C	10	10	0	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	10	10	0	20
Ohio State B	Michigan C	10	10	0	20
Michigan B	Ohio State A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Ohio State C	0	0	0	0
Duke	James Madison B	0	10	0	10
NC State B	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech B	Liberty A	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	VCU	10	10	0	20
Virginia	North Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Wake Forest	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
NC State A	William and Mary	0	0	10	10
Northwestern B	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame A	Chicago D	0	10	0	10
Northwestern D	Chicago E	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Indiana C	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Notre Dame B	Northwestern C	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	Indiana A	0	10	0	10
Illinois C	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	0	20
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Carleton College	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Claremont	Missouri A	0	0	0	0
Washington A	Minnesota A	0	10	0	10
Missouri B	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Murray State A	0	10	0	10
Tennessee A	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Bruin	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Louisville A	WashU B	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Mississipi State	0	10	0	10
WashU A	Sewanee	10	10	0	20
Oxford C	Birmingham	10	10	0	20
Cambridge A	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh A	Cardiff	10	10	10	30
Montpellier	Imperial B	0	0	0	0
Southampton A	Warwick A	10	10	0	20
Manchester	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Catholic	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	John Jay	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	Rutgers A	10	10	0	20
Maryland B	Swarthmore	0	10	0	10
NYU A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Maryland A	NYU C	10	10	0	20
Maryland C	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	Vassar	0	10	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Harvard A	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0
Southern Connecticut State	Brown	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	Harvard B	0	10	0	10
Yale	Dartmouth B	0	10	0	10
Penn State	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
RIT	Binghamton A	10	10	0	20
Cornell A	Rochester	0	0	0	0