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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"An excellent philosopher...A humanist is exactly what Danto is, and an enormously broad-minded one at that...One reads Danto because he really tries to throw the most positive light possible on the output of artists...I would venture that Danto is probably the most erudite writer regularly reviewing contemporary art, at least in English, and maybe in any language." -- Bookforum "Danto is an ideal critic for those who do not revel in mere paint...He's unbeatable at what he does...Danto offers a kind of access to art that few other critics do." -- The New York Times Book Review
introduction the wake of art, gregg horowitz, tom huhn;
Chapter 1
blam!First published in The Nation, October 20,1984., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 2 the philosophical disenfranchisement of artThis essay is an
expanded version of a plenary address before the World Congress of
Aesthetics, in Montreal, August
1984. The theme of that conference was Art
and the Transformations of Philosophy. A slightly modified version appeared
in Grand Street I am grateful to Professor Elinor West for her deep analyses
of the relationship between Plato and Aristophanes. If she is right, we read
an impoverished text of the Republic in not appreciating the punning
references to Aristophanes the original readers of such texts would have been
alive to., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 3 learning to live with pluralismThis
lecture was the invited keynote address for the Glass Arts Society in
Corning, New York, in June 1991, and was published in that society's journal
in 1991., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 4 symbolic expressions and the
selfOriginally delivered on Wimal Dassanayake's invitation at his seminar on
the self at the East-West Center in Honolulu in August 1990, but in a
radically different form., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 5 art after the end of
artFirst published in Artforum, April 1993;
Chapter 6 hans haacke and the
industry of artFirst published in The Nation, February 14,1987., arthur c.
danto;
Chapter 7 red groomsFirst published in The Nation, September 12,1987.,
arthur c. danto;
Chapter 8 tilted arc and public artFirst published in The
Nation, June 22,1985., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 9 the Vietnam veterans
memorialFirst published in The Nation, August 31,1985., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 10 the 1991 whitney biennialFirst published in The Nation, June
3,1991., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 11 the 1993 whitney biennialFirst published
in The Nation, April 19,1993., arthur c. danto;
Chapter 12 the abstract
expressionist coca-cola bottleA version of this essay appeared as
Metamorphoses de la bouteille de Coca in the catalogue for the exhibition
Art ? Pub at the Centre Georges Pompidou in January 1991., arthur c. danto;
Danto, Arthur C.; Horowitz, Gregg; Huhn, Tom; Ostrow, Saul
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