Name: After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History (Princeton University Press)
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Author: Arthur C. Danto
ISBN: 9780691163895

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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History (Princeton University Press)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arthur C. Danto

Preface by

Lydia Goehr

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.2 x 14.0 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.26 kg.

ISBN13

9780691163895

Synopsis "After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History (Princeton University Press)"

The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can't make sense of contemporary art A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, a philosopher who was also one of the leading art critics of his time, argues that traditional notions of aesthetics no longer apply to contemporary art and that we need a philosophy of art criticism that can deal with perhaps the most perplexing feature of current art: that everything is possible. An insightful and entertaining exploration of art's most important aesthetic and philosophical issues conducted by an acute observer of contemporary art, After the End of Art argues that, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, Danto makes the case for a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhol's Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. After the End of Art addresses art history, pop art, "people's art," the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg, whose aesthetics-based criticism helped a previous generation make sense of modernism. Tracing art history from a mimetic tradition (the idea that art was a progressively more adequate representation of reality) through the modern era of manifestos (when art was defined by the artist's philosophy), Danto shows that it wasn't until the invention of pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified. Even modernist art, which tried to break with the past by questioning the ways in which art was produced, hinged on a narrative.

Arthur C. Danto

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Arthur C. Danto (Ann Arbor, 1924 – New York, 2013) was an influential art philosopher, critic, and professor at Columbia University. Known for his theory of the “end of art”, he argued that, after the disruptions of the 20th century, art no longer follows a linear historical narrative. His concept of the “artworld” holds that a work is art if it is accepted by the art community. Danto was also an art critic at The Nation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and chaired the American Society for Aesthetics.

Among his most notable works are The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (1981), After the End of Art (1997), The Abuse of Beauty (2003), Beyond the Brillo Box (2003), and What Art Is (2013). His essay Encounters and Reflections (1990) won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Danto is considered a key figure in contemporary aesthetics, with a body of work that has deeply influenced art philosophy and cultural criticism.

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