The Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste

by Arthur C. Danto, Gregg Horowitz, Tom Huhn, Saul Ostrow

Overview

Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto discerns the emergence of a radically pluralistic art world. His essays illuminate this novel art world as well as the fate of criticism within it. As a result, Danto has crafted the most compelling philosophy of art criticism since Clement Greenberg. Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn analyze the constellation of philosophical and critical elements in Danto's new- Hegelian art theory. In a provocative encounter, they employ themes from Kantian aesthetics to elucidate the continuing persistence of taste in shaping even this most sophisticated philosophy of art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789057012211
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/27/1998
Series:	Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Danto, Arthur C.; Horowitz, Gregg; Huhn, Tom; Ostrow, Saul

Table of Contents

introduction the wake of art, gregg horowitz, tom huhn; Chapter 1 blam!First published in The Nation, October 20,1984., arthur c. danto; Chapter 2 the philosophical disenfranchisement of artThis essay is an expanded version of a plenary address before the World Congress of Aesthetics, in Montreal, August 1984. The theme of that conference was “Art and the Transformations of Philosophy.” A slightly modified version appeared in Grand Street I am grateful to Professor Elinor West for her deep analyses of the relationship between Plato and Aristophanes. If she is right, we read an impoverished text of the Republic in not appreciating the punning references to Aristophanes the original readers of such texts would have been alive to., arthur c. danto; Chapter 3 learning to live with pluralismThis lecture was the invited keynote address for the Glass Arts Society in Corning, New York, in June 1991, and was published in that society's journal in 1991., arthur c. danto; Chapter 4 symbolic expressions and the selfOriginally delivered on Wimal Dassanayake's invitation at his seminar on the self at the East-West Center in Honolulu in August 1990, but in a radically different form., arthur c. danto; Chapter 5 art after the end of artFirst published in Artforum, April 1993; Chapter 6 hans haacke and the industry of artFirst published in The Nation, February 14,1987., arthur c. danto; Chapter 7 red groomsFirst published in The Nation, September 12,1987., arthur c. danto; Chapter 8 tilted arc and public artFirst published in The Nation, June 22,1985., arthur c. danto; Chapter 9 the Vietnam veterans memorialFirst published in The Nation, August 31,1985., arthur c. danto; Chapter 10 the 1991 whitney biennialFirst published in The Nation, June 3,1991., arthur c. danto; Chapter 11 the 1993 whitney biennialFirst published in The Nation, April 19,1993., arthur c. danto; Chapter 12 the abstract expressionist coca-cola bottleA version of this essay appeared as “Metamorphoses de la bouteille de Coca” in the catalogue for the exhibition Art ? Pub at the Centre Georges Pompidou in January 1991., arthur c. danto;

Editorial Reviews

Danto is an ideal critic for those who do not revel in mere paint....He's unbeatable at what he does....Danto offers a kind of access to art that few other critics do.

New York Times Book Review

An excellent philosopher....A humanist is exactly what Danto is, and an enormously broad-minded one at that....One reads Danto because he really tries to throw the most positive light possible on the output of artists....I would venture that Danto is probably the most erudite writer regularly reviewing contemporary art, at least in English, and maybe in any language.

Bookforum

"An excellent philosopher...A humanist is exactly what Danto is, and an enormously broad-minded one at that...One reads Danto because he really tries to throw the most positive light possible on the output of artists...I would venture that Danto is probably the most erudite writer regularly reviewing contemporary art, at least in English, and maybe in any language." — Bookforum
"Danto is an ideal critic for those who do not revel in mere paint...He's unbeatable at what he does...Danto offers a kind of access to art that few other critics do." — The New York Times Book Review

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