Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays

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List of contents

Preface 
Introduction:Philosophy and Contemporary Art

1. The "Original Creative Principle": Motherwell and Psychic Automatism 
2. Art-in-Response 
3. The Philosopher as Andy Warhol 
4. Illustrating a Philosophical Text: Mel Bochner's Wittgenstein Drawings
5. Giotto and the Stench of Lazarus 
6. Postmodern Art and Concrete Selves: The Model of the Jewish Museum 
7. The Seat of the Soul: Three Chairs 
8. Munakata in New York: A Memory of the 1950s 
9. Louis Kahn as Archai-Tekt 
10. Moving Pictures 
11. Gettysburg 
12. Art and Taxpayers 
13. Art and the Discourse of Nations 

Index

About the author

Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University. He is art critic for The Nation and the author of more than twenty books, including Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (California, 1996), Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (California, 1995), and, now in paperback, Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (California, 1998).

Summary

Includes essays that explore the relationship between philosophy and art through a number of cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur C. Danto, Arthur Coleman Danto, Danto Arthur C.
• Assisted by: Arthur C. Danto (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2001
• EAN: 9780520229068
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22906-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art