Arthur C. Danto

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Eric Fischl

Arthur C. Danto; Robert Enright; Steve (AFT) Martin

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Nietzsche As Philosopher

Arthur C. Danto

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2005

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Unnatural Wonders: Essays From The Gap Between Art And Life

Arthur C. Danto

Arthur Danto's new collection finds him, and the art world, at a point when the art world has become pluralistic, even chaotic--with one medium as good as the next--when the moment for "next things" has passed.Since 1984, when Danto--already an eminent philosopher--became The Nation's art critic, he has been one of the foremost theorists of contemporary art's history and evolution, and at the same time the most incisive and illuminating critic of new work. In his view, the historical development of art reached a kind of zenith in the pop period, most famously with Warhol's Brillo Boxes. Danto's five volumes of review essays (all published by FSG) form a kind of chronicle of the art world since the Brillo moment, and a running appraisal of the great variety of significant work made since then. In this new book, he shows how work that bridges the gap between art and life is now the definitive work of our time: Damien Hirst's arrays of skeletons and anatomical models, Barbara Kruger's tchotchke-ready slogans, Renee Cox's nude portrait of herself at the Last Supper. To the obvious question--is this stuff really art?--Danto replies with an enthusiastic yes, explaining, with a philosopher's clarity and an art lover's sense of delight, how these "unnatural wonders" show us who we are.

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The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

Arthur C. Danto

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Softcover - 1988, Hardcover - 1986

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Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction

Arthur C. Danto; Suzanne Ramljak; Morris Lapidus; Morris Lapidos; Michele Oka Doner

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The Color of Time: The Phoographs of Sean Scully

Arthur C. Danto; Sean Scully; Mia Fineman

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Robert Mangold

Arthur C. Danto; Robert Storr; Nancy Princenthal; Sylvia Plimack Mangold

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

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The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art

Arthur C. Danto

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Robert Mangold: Curled Figure and Column Paintings

Arthur C. Danto; Robert Mangold; PaceWildenstein (Firm)

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Joel Shapiro: Recent Sculpture, PaceWildenstein, May 2-July 31, 2003

Arthur C. Danto; Joel Shapiro; PaceWildenstein (Firm)

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O que E Fluxux? O Que Nao E ! O Porque/What's Fluxus? What's Not! Why

Arthur C. Danto; Jon Hendricks

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Ursula Von Rydingsvard: Cedar Lace and Tossing Loops

Arthur C. Danto; Ursula Von Rydingsvard; Galerie Lelong (Paris, France)

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Made in Oakland: The Furniture of Garry Knox Bennett

Arthur C. Danto; Garry Knox Bennett; Edward S. Cooke; Ursula Ilse-Neuman; Oakland Museum; N.Y.) American Craft Museum (New York

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The Body/Body Problem: Selected Essays

Arthur C. Danto

The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who represent -- and misrepresent -- actual and possible worlds. Addressing philosophical questions of mental representation, Danto presents his distinctive approach to some of the most enduring topics in philosophy. He is concerned with the nature of description, the status of the external world, action theory, the philosophy of history, and the philosophical status of psychoanalytic explanation. Representation is a central concept in philosophy, says Danto, with differences among philosophers arising in the ways they account for how representations connect to the world or to the individuals possessing them, and how they connect with one another to form systems of beliefs, feelings, and attitudes. In these essays Danto's own voice, with his arguments and speculations, provides rich philosophical pleasures that will endure, to borrow from Santayana, "under whatever sky."

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Other editions: Softcover - 2001

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The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World

Arthur C. Danto

The celebrated art critic's appraisals of the art world today--from Vermeer to Lucian Freud, from Richard Avedon to outsider art.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2001

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Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpturevolume 1946-1997

Arthur C. Danto

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Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South The Ronald and June Shelp Collection

Arthur C. Danto; Grey Gundaker; Edmund Barry Gaither; Judith M. McWillie

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Howard Ben Tre

Arthur C. Danto; Patterson Sims; Mary Jane Jacob

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Other editions: Softcover - 1999

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Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century

Arthur C. Danto; Neal David Benezra; Neal Benezra; Olga M. Viso; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Haus Der Kunst Munchen

The lavishly illustrated Regarding Beauty surveys late twentieth-century Western art to address why the timeless notion of beauty has recently been so hotly contested and, in the 1980s and 1990s in particular, so highly politicized. Are there accepted standards of beauty, or does beauty exist solely in the mind? Is beauty eternal, or a fleeting experience subject to changing fashion and tastes? Can one find beauty in ugliness? Hirshhorn Museum curators Neal Benezra and Olga M. Viso, analytical philosopher Arthur C. Danto, and Haus der Kunst curator Hubertus Gassner contribute essays regarding these questions in this volume, which accompanies an exhibition of approximately eighty paintings, sculptures, and installations by thirty-four artists. Emphasizing parallel approaches rather than trends or movements, illustrations juxtapose works by well-known Europeans and Americans of the past -- Yves Klein, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, for instance -- with the creations of a broad and diverse group of international contemporary artists to dramatize the fertile field of beauty as it relates to the figure, landscape, and abstraction. Regarding Beauty argues that beauty has not disappeared from the dialog of art and that, on the contrary, it has persisted as an essential element in the evolution of art as the 20th century passes into history.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999

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Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays

Arthur C. Danto

Arthur C. Danto's work has always affirmed a deep relationship between philosophy and art. These essays explore this relationship through a number of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas, or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms. The essays cover a varied terrain, with subjects including Giotto's use of olfactory data in THE RAISING OF LAZARUS; chairs in art and chairs as art; Mel Bochner's Wittgenstein drawings; the work of Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, and Robert Irwin; Louis Kahn as "Archai-Tekt"; and visual truth in film.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1997

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Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings 1987-1997

Arthur C. Danto; Ida Applebroog; Dorothy Allison; Terrie Sultan; Corcoran Gallery of Art

Ida Applebroog (b. 1929) has received international acclaim for the complexly psychological sensibility of her large, multi-paneled paintings. The deceptive, childlike quality of her work masks sometimes startlingly violent themes. This book, which serves as catalog to a major upcoming exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., showcases the work of the painter's productive past eleven years, and is among the most substantial collections of her art.

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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History

Arthur C. Danto

Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale refomulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vassari helped pave for it in the Renaissance. 24 halftones.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1997

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The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste Essays

Arthur C. Danto; Tom Huhn; Gregg Horowitz

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.

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Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective

Arthur C. Danto

A ground-breaking contribution to contemporary thinking about aesthetics, Arthur C. Danto's new collection of interconnected essays grapples with the most challenging issues in art today, among them the problems of contemporary pluralism and the dilemmas of censorship and state support for artists. Andy Warhol's Brillo Box of 1964 constituted a radical attack on traditional definitions of the artwork and, in Danto's view, brought the history of Western art to a close. Beyond the Brillo Box considers the aftermath and the consequences of Warhol's work on three levels. Danto first discusses what he calls the master narrative of Western art, showing how even the most revolutionary pre-Pop movements were nourished by a common conception of art which lay securely within the Western tradition, and contrasting this tradition to parallel narratives in the East and in Africa. He then takes up the current, post-historical period, which began with Warhol and the collision of "high" and "low" art, and discusses how the pluralism it engendered has changed the way art is made, perceived, and exhibited. Finally, Danto addresses the philosophical idea of the master narrative from Plato to Wittgenstein and beyond by exploring the ways art has a history, the different kinds of history it has in different cultures, and the degree to which narratives are real and not simply intellectual constructs. Arthur C. Danto's criticism, which has been published principally in The Nation, since 1984, has made him one of our leading art critics. Here he discusses the philosophical concerns that underlie his provocative and illuminating engagements with the art of our time. Urgently committed yet always witty anddeeply humane, Danto is the most enlightening--and exciting--thinker about the problems of aesthetics today. Beyond the Brillo Box is a work of immediate--and more than immediate--importance.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1993, Hardcover - 1992

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The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste

Arthur C. Danto; Tom Huhn; Gregg Horowitz

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.

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