The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780231132275

In this text, first published in 1986, the author explored the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy. In this new edition, Jonathan Gilmore provides a foreword discussing how scholarship has changed in response to it.

Wake of Art

Wake of Art
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134395450

Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto discerns the emergence of a radically pluralistic art world. His essays illuminate this novel art world as well as the fate of criticism within it. As a result, Danto has crafted the most compelling philosophy of art criticism since Clement Greenberg. Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn analyze the constellation of philosophical and critical elements in Danto's new- Hegelian art theory. In a provocative encounter, they employ themes from Kantian aesthetics to elucidate the continuing persistence of taste in shaping even this most sophisticated philosophy of art.

Unnatural Wonders

Unnatural Wonders
Author: Arthur Coleman Danto
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780231141154

The famous theorist locates contemporary art's most exhilarating achievements.

After the End of Art

After the End of Art
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0691209308

The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, a philosopher who was also one of the leading art critics of his time, argues that traditional notions of aesthetics no longer apply to contemporary art and that we need a philosophy of art criticism that can deal with perhaps the most perplexing feature of current art: that everything is possible. An insightful and entertaining exploration of art’s most important aesthetic and philosophical issues conducted by an acute observer of contemporary art, After the End of Art argues that, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, Danto makes the case for a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. After the End of Art addresses art history, pop art, “people’s art,” the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg, whose aesthetics-based criticism helped a previous generation make sense of modernism. Tracing art history from a mimetic tradition (the idea that art was a progressively more adequate representation of reality) through the modern era of manifestos (when art was defined by the artist’s philosophy), Danto shows that it wasn’t until the invention of pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified. Even modernist art, which tried to break with the past by questioning the ways in which art was produced, hinged on a narrative.

Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art: Essays

Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art: Essays
Author: Noël Carroll
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004468366

From the nineteen-eighties on, Arthur Danto was the most significant art critic and philosopher of art in world. This book provides a comprehensive, systematic view of his philosophy and criticism including his views in relation to not only painting and sculpture but to cinema and dance.

Beyond the Brillo Box

Beyond the Brillo Box
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1998-11-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520216747

This essays explore how conceptions of art -and resulting historical narrativesdiffer according to culture.

The Abuse of Beauty

The Abuse of Beauty
Author: Arthur C. Danto
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2003
Genre: Aesthetics
ISBN: 9780812695403

Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist avant-garde dislodged beauty from its throne. Danto argues not only that the modernists were right to deny that beauty is vital to art, but also that beauty is essential to human life and need not always be excluded from art.

New Philosophies of Film

New Philosophies of Film
Author: Robert Sinnerbrink
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-10-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441153438

A concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights. It covers adaptations such as film and TV versions of the novel and student-friendly features include discussion points and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Iconoclasm in Aesthetics

Iconoclasm in Aesthetics
Author: Michael Kelly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-09-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521822091

Contemporary theorizing about art is dominated by a clash between two approaches: philosophers have characteristically taken the view that art is a vehicle of some universal meaning or truth, while art historians, and others working in the humanities, emphasize the concrete nature and historical particularity of the work of art. Is art capable of sustaining these two approaches? Or, as Kelly argues, is art rather determined by its historical particularity? If so, then if philosophers continue to pursue mainly the universality of art, they inadvertently end up exhibiting a disinterest and distrust in art. Kelly calls such disinterest and distrust 'iconoclasm', and in this book he discusses four philosophers - Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida, and Danto - who are ultimately iconoclasts despite their deep philosophical engagement with the arts. He concludes by suggesting ways in which iconoclasm in aesthetics can be avoided in the future.