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The way sociology accounts for recent artifications seems to assume that a stable or historically stabilized boundary has existed between art and non-art since the modern emergence of the “fine arts” category. Sociological studies also conclude that cases of de-artification are rare and marginal. Through a reading of three paragraphs of Kant’s third Critique, this article aims to expand upon the following two points: the eighteenth century did not produce a consensus on a “fixed” list of fine arts, and some historical de-artifications reached disciplines that served as models in the very emergence of the category of fine arts.