Arthur Coleman Danto, Author . Open Court $29.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8126-9540-3
Charting the disappearance of beauty as a primary artistic value in the 20th century, Danto (The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, etc.) offers a hot-and-cold mix of philosophical musings and autobiographical reflections that attempt to restore a...
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author ABRAMS $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3912-7
In a monochromatic style, American painter Mark Tansey teases the viewer with images that explode into paradoxes. In The Innocent Eye Test, one of his most famous works, a cow led into a picture gallery by academic savants inspects a painting of a...
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-28118-2
By now, collections of Columbia University philosopher Danto's review-essays on contemporary art are familiar; this fifth installment again centers on work reprinted from his regular column in the Nation, where he has been art critic since 1984....
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author Prentice Hall $19.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-13-770868-0
An art critic who weaves Nietzsche and Hegel into journalism is rare, but Danto, who writes for the Nation, turns out philosophically informed criticism with pungency and bite. He reminds us that most 20th century art, until recently, has been...
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-06-015960-3
Philosopher-teacher Danto is an adroit guide through the thickets of contemporary philosophy. First, he defines our connections to the universe in terms of three basic elements: the subject, his or her representation of the world and the world...
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-14819-5
Danto, professor of philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for the Nation , culls a diverse selection of his investigations into the art world circa 1986-1990, grouped under the umbrella of Danto's chosen field of expertise: ``artphilohisto
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-11242-4
In Danto's view, artists' feelings of belonging to a continuous tradition vanished around 1965, one year after Andy Warhol's Brillo Box. In the current ``post-historical'' epoch, he writes, postmodernists make pathetic stabs at reconnecting with the
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $27.5 (397p) ISBN 978-0-374-14762-4
Danto's philosophically informed art criticism in these 41 reviews and essays bristles with erudition, eclectic taste and keen intellect. He evinces fresh perspectives and generous sympathies whether he is discussing Old Masters like Titian and...
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author University of California Press $39.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-520-20051-7
The erotically candid photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989, became the focus for the controversy over federal funding of the arts. Danto, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia and an art critic for the Nation,...
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author Princeton University Press $42.5 (264p) ISBN 978-0-691-01173-8
Columbia philosophy professor and Nation art critic Danto has always claimed that there have been three great events in the history of art. First, in the 15th century, art was born when Vasari redescribed what had been the craft of relic- and icon-ma
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Arthur Coleman Danto, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $32 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-10613-3
In his 15 years as art critic for the Nation, Danto has managed to negotiate that fine line between theorist and educator, an awkward but necessary combination putting sometimes conflicting demands upon a critic. This latest collection of his...
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