-- "Philosophy and Literature"
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Illuminating the entwined histories of Western thought and art from Socrates and Aristophanes to Warhol, the nine essays collected here explicate the development of Danto's aesthetic theory since the well-received publication of The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (Harvard Univ. Pr., 1981). A fluent writer and cogent theoretician, Danto argues that given the contemporary state of the art worldno longer in need of constant revolution and consequently "post-historical"a philosophy of the history of art is now in order. Each of his essays was originally composed for a particular professional or scholarly audience, and some have appeared in scholarly journals, but together they provide a coherent treatise both accessible to critically aware general readers and of value to students and scholars in the fields of philosophy and art. Francisca Goldsmith, M.L.S., IFCorp., Piedmont, Cal.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"[Danto is] a fluent writer and cogent theoretician... A coherent treatise both accessible to critically aware general readers and of value to students and scholars of philosophy and art." -- Library Journal
"Danto's view is an important corrective to naive formalism as well as to the recent 'institutional analysis of art'.... The magnitude of the issues Mr. Danto's book raises is a mark of the book's importance." -- The New York Times Book Review
"Danto's critical pieces -- witty and urbane essays -- are uniformly a joy to read." -- The Journal of Philosophy
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What came first, Arthur Danto ideas or the artist's work?,
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This review is from: The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Paperback)
Arthur Danto raises many interesting points to help understand art today. In many cases his ideas are very insightful. It made me wonder about what came first, Danto's ideas, or the artist's ideas as revealed in their work?
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IN HIS GREAT poem on the death of William Butler Yeats, Auden wrote: "Ireland has her madness and her weather still/ For poetry makes nothing happen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
disturbational art, deep interpretation, perceptual equivalence, philosophical disenfranchisement, surface interpretation, bottle rack, neural states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silas Marner, Don Quixote, George Eliot, Mott Works, Referential Fallacy, Abstract Expressionism, Verifiability Criterion, Flower Artist, Piero da Vinci, Song of Songs, Thomas Kuhn New!
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IN HIS GREAT poem on the death of William Butler Yeats, Auden wrote: "Ireland has her madness and her weather still/ For poetry makes nothing happen. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
disturbational art, deep interpretation, perceptual equivalence, philosophical disenfranchisement, surface interpretation, bottle rack, neural states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Silas Marner, Don Quixote, George Eliot, Mott Works, Referential Fallacy, Abstract Expressionism, Verifiability Criterion, Flower Artist, Piero da Vinci, Song of Songs, Thomas Kuhn New!
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- Silas Marner (Bantam Classics) by George Eliot on 5 pages
- Don Quixote (Modern Library Classics) by Miguel de Cervantes on page 156, and page 157
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra on page 156, and page 157
- Don Quixote (English Picture Readers) by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra on page 156, and page 157
- Don Quixote De La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes on page 156, and page 157
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- Surface and Depth: Dialectics of Criticism and Culture by Richard Shusterman on 7 pages
- End of Art and Beyond: Essays After Danto by Arto Haapala on 6 pages
- The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics by Dominic Lopes on page 11, page 72, and page 176
- Performing Live : Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art by Richard Shusterman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) by Arthur C. Danto in Front Matter, page 18, and Back Matter
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