Beyond the Brillo Box
Title | Beyond the Brillo Box PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1998-11-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520216747 |
This essays explore how conceptions of art -and resulting historical narrativesdiffer according to culture.
After the End of Art
Title | After the End of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
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.
The Madonna of the Future
Title | The Madonna of the Future PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2001-09-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520230026 |
Danto writes about the contemporary art to be seen in museums and galleries, placing it in the context of the history of modern art and of current debates about essential ideas in our society.
Andy Warhol
Title | Andy Warhol PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 2009-10-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300154984 |
“Astutely traces the ripple effects of Warhol’s blurring of the lines between commercial and fine art, and art and real life…masterful.”—Booklist (starred review) Art critic, philosopher, and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. By drawing on subject matter understandable to the ordinary American, Warhol revolutionized the way we look at art. In this book, Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol’s time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure—artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher—who retains permanent residence in our national imagination.
The Abuse of Beauty
Title | The Abuse of Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | Open Court Publishing |
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.
Philosophizing Art
Title | Philosophizing Art PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2001-04-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520229068 |
An eclectic collection of essays centering on the intersection of art and philosophy, especially in the late 20th century.
What Art Is
Title | What Art Is PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur C. Danto |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2013-03-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 030017487X |
One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.