Danto and his critics / edited by Mark Rollins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rollins, Mark, 1947-

Series:

Philosophers and their critics ; 14.

Philosophers and their critics ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Danto, Arthur C., 1924-.

Danto, Arthur C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University and long-time art critic for The Nation. Reflects Danto's revisions in his theory of art, reworking his views in ways that have not been systematically addressed elsewhere Features essays that critically assess the changes in Danto's thoughts and locate Danto's revise

Contents:

DANTO AND HIS CRITICS; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography of the Works of Arthur Danto; Introduction; Part I: System and Method; 1 Danto as Systematic Philosopher, or Comme on lit Danto en français; 2 Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles; Part II: Intention and Interpretation; 3 The Invisible Content of Visual Art; 4 Déjà vu All Over Again: How Danto's Aesthetics Recapitulates the Philosophy of Mind; 5 Surface and Deep Interpretation; 6 "Other Pictures We Look at, - His Prints We Read": Danto Reading Lamb Reading Hogarth on the Art of the Commonplace

Part III: Philosophy of Art 7 A Tale of Two Artworlds; 8 Essence, Expression, and History: Arthur Danto's Philosophy of Art; 9 Danto's New Definition of Art and the Problem of Art Theories; 10 Danto and Kant: Together at Last?; 11 Atomism, Art, and Arthur: Danto's Hegelian Turn; Part IV: Historical Knowledge; 12 Art and Its Doubles: Danto, Foucault, and Their Simulacra; 13 The Beginning of the End: Danto on Postmodernism; 14 Danto's Aesthetic: Is It Truly General As He Claims?; Part V: What Philosophy Is; 15 Art as Religion: Transfigurations of Danto's Dao

16 Looking Beyond the Visible: The Case of Arthur Dan two Part VI: Responses; 17 Replies to Essays; Afterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613616722

9781280586897

1280586893

9781118252987

1118252985

9781118253045

1118253043

9781118253007

1118253000

OCLC:

779410842