Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art : Essays.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Danto, Art, and History -- 3. Danto, Style, and Intention -- 4. Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art -- 1 Essence and Expression: Danto's Philosophy of Art -- 2 The End of Art: Danto's Philosophy of Art History -- 3 A Critical Examination of Danto's Philosophy of Art -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- 5. Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories -- 6. The End of Art? -- 7. Danto, the End of Art, and the Orientational Narrative -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Misunderstandings: The Endlessness of Art -- 3 The End of Art -- 4 Criticisms of the End-of-Art Thesis -- 5 Re-Reading Danto -- 8. Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty -- 1 On Why Beauty in the Narrow Sense Appears to be a Problem for Danto -- 2 On Why Beauty Has No Place in Danto's Concept of Art -- 3 Explaining (or Explaining Away) the Relevance of Beauty to Art Properly So-Called -- 4 Arthur Danto's Concept of Art and Beauty in a Broader Sense -- 9. Arthur Danto, His Philosophy of Art and Critical Practice -- 1 Essentialism without Critical Value Judgments -- 2 Danto's Definition of Art and His Critical Practice -- 3 Danto's Philosophy of Art History and His Critical Practice -- 4 Art Criticism without Evaluation? -- 5 Summary -- 10. Arthur Danto and the Political Re-Enfranchisement of Art -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Disenfranchising Art -- 3 Danto and the Possibility of Political Art -- 4 Summary -- 11. Danto, Pluralism, and Politics -- 1 Between Modernist Autonomy and Post-Modernist Engagement -- 2 Danto, Modernism, and Pluralism -- 3 Post-Modernist Political Advocacy and Post-Historical Pluralism -- 4 Summary -- 12. The Philosophy of Art History, Dance, and the 1960s -- 13. Arthur Danto Goes to the Movies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Danto's Ontology of Cinema.

3 Danto and the History of the Moving Image -- 4 Danto and Moving Image Criticism -- 14. Warhol's Empire -- 15. Danto's Philosophy of History -- 1 Historical Retrospecton -- 2 The Substantive Philosophy of History -- 3 The Eye-Witness View of History -- 4 The End of Art -- 16. Danto's Comic Vision: Philosophical Method and Literary Style -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Danto's Philosophical Method -- 3 Comedy Tonight -- 4 A Happy Ending -- 17. The Age of Danto -- Appendix: Two Brief Notes on What Art Is -- 1 On "Wakeful Dreams" -- 2 "Kant and the Work of Art" -- Index.

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.

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