The wake of art : criticism, philosophy and the ends of taste / Arthur C. Danto ; essays selected and with critical introduction, Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn.
By: Danto, Arthur C
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Contributor(s): Horowitz, Gregg | Huhn, Tom.
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BookSeries: Critical voices in art, theory and culture.Publisher: Amsterdam : G+B Arts, 1998Description: xv, 204 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9057013010.Other title: Arthur C. Danto essays.Subject(s): Art criticism -- Philosophy | Art -- Historiography | PostmodernismDDC classification: 701 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 701 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00054648 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The wake of art: criticism, philosophy, and the ends of taste -- Blam! The explosion of pop, minimalism, and performance, 1958-1964 -- The philosophical disenfranchisement of art -- Learning to live with pluralism -- Symbolic expressions and the self -- Art after the end of art -- Hans Haacke and the industry of art -- Red Grooms -- Tilted arc and public art -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- The 1991 Whitney Biennial -- The 1993 Whitney Biennial -- The abstract expressionist Coca-Cola bottle.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto was born in 1924. He received a B.A. from Wayne State University in 1948 and a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, in 1949 and 1952, respectively. He began teaching at Columbia University in 1951 and has been a professor since 1966. He has received many fellowships and grants including two Guggenheims, ACLS, and Fulbright, and has served as Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association, as well as President of the American Society for Aesthetics. His book Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, a collection of art criticism, won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism. He is also the art critic for The Nation and an editor for the Journal of Philosophy.(Bowker Author Biography)