After the End of Art Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition / Arthur C. Danto ; with a new foreword by Lydia Goehr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danto, Arthur Coleman., Creator.

Contributor:

Goehr, Lydia.

Series:

Princeton Classics

The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts 1995

Princeton classics

Bollingen series XXXV, 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism.

Art--Historiography.

Art criticism--Philosophy.

Art criticism.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.) : 18 b/w illus.

Edition:

First Princeton classics edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Originally delivered as the prestigious A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, one of the best-known art critics of his time, presents radical insights into art's irrevocable deviation from its previous course and the decline of traditional aesthetics. He demonstrates the necessity for a new type of criticism in the face of contemporary art's wide-open possibilities"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Foreword to the Princeton classics edition

Introduction: modern, postmodern, and contemporary

Three decades after the end of art

Master narratives and critical principles

Modernism and the critique of pure art: the historical vision of Clement Greenberg

From aesthetics to art criticism

Painting and the pale of history: the passing of the pure

Pop art and past futures

Painting, politics, and post-historical art

The historical museum of monochrome art

Museums and the thirsting millions

Modalities of history: Possiblity and comedy

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691209302

0691209308

OCLC:

1251444385