Books written by Arthur C. Danto

Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor

( 23 x 15 cm ) spun wool Suzy Langlois Collection of the artist 878 x 54/2 in . ( 22.5 x 14 cm ) ( see p . 137 ) ( see p . 151 ) Suzy Langlois ( see p . 132 ) 48 . Pondicherry 55 . Pavé Made in Bangalore , India , 1966 Made in Paris ...
Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1981-1990

The volume containing biographies and photographs of the APA presidents, a list of birthplaces, chronology of the APA, a list of universities and colleges closely associated with each president, and name and subject indices.
Picturing People

Since 1975, Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey has developed a body of work distinguished for its commitment to portraiture as means for understanding contemporary social circumstances.
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition

Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, 2:420. 26. Paul J. Watson and Randy Thornhill, “Fluctuating Asymmetry and Sexual Selection,” Tree 9 (1994): 21-25. 27. Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, 1:216. 28. Hegel, Aesthetics, 71.
Nietzsche as Philosopher

In a sense, Schopenhauer and Wagner were the Apollo and Dionysus of Nietzsche's thought—they embodied, as it were, Idea and Will, respectively, so that just as tragedy was the product of the arts of form and frenzy ...
Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste

Schopenhauer had a considerably higher regard for art than any Plato shows in his philosophy, but in an important sense he agrees with his great predecessors in agreeing that art makes nothing happen in the causal order of the world.
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend

Presents a catalog of an exhibition showcasing the works of the American sculptor and artist.
Howard Ben Tré

L'Atelier 25 ( February 1978 ) : 15-18 . Morgenroth , Lynda . “ Post Office Square Fountain Is Abstract Study . ... Text by P. Chaigneau and D. Johnson . Nice : 1994 . Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . Glass Today by American Studio ...
Estética después del fin del arte: Ensayos sobre Arthur Danto

Danto propone una definición de la obra de arte como "símbolo encarnado" que pretende dar cuenta del carácter unitario de la historia del arte desde sus comienzos hasta nuestros días, evitando considerar el argumento vanguardista ...
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

Consider the article on Leonardo in the celebrated eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, by then–Slade Professor of Fine Arts at Cambridge, Sidney Colvin. “By his own instincts he was an exclusive student of nature .
Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

Something like this is true , I believe , of Cubism , and I was thrilled to read in John Golding's essay on Picasso in The New York Review of Books that Picasso once said , " I want to say the nude . I don't want to do the nude as a ...
What Art Is

One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.
What Art Is

DIV What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question.
What Art Is

Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, this book challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning.
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C. Danto explored the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy.
The Death of Art

The lead essay by Arthur Danto "addresses the possibility that art as it has been enshrined in the museums, galleries, and other canonizing institutions of modern culture has reached an...
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art

Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art.
Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays

An eclectic collection of essays centering on the intersection of art and philosophy, especially in the late 20th century.
The Body/Body Problem: Selected Essays

A collection of essays by philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto focusing on mental representation and the body.
Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy

Examining the work of Plato, Descartes, Hume and Wittgenstein, this introduction to the central topics of Western philosophical thought explores debates about empiricism, the mind/body problem, the nature of matter, and the status of ...