Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art: Essays
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-46835-1 (ISBN)
For over thirty years, Arthur Danto was the most important art critic and philosopher of art and aesthetics in the English-speaking world. Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art: Essays provides a comprehensive and systematic view of his philosophy and criticism by Noël Carroll, Distinguished Professor of the Philosophy of Art, CUNY and himself a former journalist specializing in arts criticism. Danto's writings attracted and still attracts diverse audiences, including aestheticians, artists, art critics, historians, and art lovers. In this book they will find his major themes not only analyzed in depth but also discussions of his political significance, views on history, cinema and more.
Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. He is the author of over fifteen books including The Philosophy of Horror, Humour: A Very Short Introduction, The Philosophy of Mass Art and On Criticism. He has edited or co-edited seven anthologies including Theories of Art Today and Post-Theory. He is a former president of the American Society for Aesthetics, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a former journalist and the author of five documentary moving pictures.
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Danto, Art, and History
3 Danto, Style, and Intention
4 Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto’s Philosophy of Art
1Essence and Expression: Danto’s Philosophy of Art
2The End of Art: Danto’s Philosophy of Art History
3A Critical Examination of Danto’s Philosophy of Art
4Concluding 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
1Introduction
2Misunderstandings: The Endlessness of Art
3The End of Art
4Criticisms of the End-of-Art Thesis
5Re-Reading Danto
8 Arthur Danto and the Problem of Beauty
1On Why Beauty in the Narrow Sense Appears to be a Problem for Danto
2On Why Beauty Has No Place in Danto’s Concept of Art
3Explaining (or Explaining Away) the Relevance of Beauty to Art Properly So-Called
4Arthur Danto’s Concept of Art and Beauty in a Broader Sense
9 Arthur Danto, His Philosophy of Art and Critical Practice
1Essentialism without Critical Value Judgments
2Danto’s Definition of Art and His Critical Practice
3Danto’s Philosophy of Art History and His Critical Practice
4Art Criticism without Evaluation?
5Summary
10 Arthur Danto and the Political Re-Enfranchisement of Art
1Introduction
2Disenfranchising Art
3Danto and the Possibility of Political Art
4Summary
11 Danto, Pluralism, and Politics
1Between Modernist Autonomy and Post-Modernist Engagement
2Danto, Modernism, and Pluralism
3Post-Modernist Political Advocacy and Post-Historical Pluralism
4Summary
12 The Philosophy of Art History, Dance, and the 1960s
13 Arthur Danto Goes to the Movies
1Introduction
2Danto’s Ontology of Cinema
3Danto and the History of the Moving Image
4Danto and Moving Image Criticism
14 Warhol’s Empire
15 Danto’s Philosophy of History
1Historical Retrospecton
2The Substantive Philosophy of History
3The Eye-Witness View of History
4The End of Art
16 Danto’s Comic Vision: Philosophical Method and Literary Style
1Introduction
2Danto’s Philosophical Method
3Comedy Tonight
4A Happy Ending
17 The Age of Danto
Appendix: Two Brief Notes on What Art Is
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Philosophy of History and Culture ; 39 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 524 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-46835-8 / 9004468358 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-46835-1 / 9789004468351 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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