Product Description

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. In light of the book's impact -- especially the essay "The End of Art," which dramatically announced that art ended in the 1960s -- this enhanced edition includes a foreword by Jonathan Gilmore that discusses how scholarship has changed in response to it. Complete with a new bibliography of work on and influenced by Danto's ideas, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art continues to be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about art, as well as to philosophers, aestheticians, and art historians.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #978144 in Books
• Published on: 2004-12-30
• Released on: 2005-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

From Library Journal
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.
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Review
Danto's critical pieces ­ witty and urbane essays ­ are uniformly a joy to read. -- The Journal of Philosophy

Danto's critical pieces ­ witty and urbane essays ­ are uniformly a joy to read. -- Review

Mr. 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

To read Danto on any topic in philosophical aesthetics is invariably to emerge with one's sense of that topic enlarged. -- Philosophy and Literature

Review

"[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

Customer Reviews

What came first, Arthur Danto ideas or the artist's work?
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?