Offers a reconstruction of the Sartrean system, and in particular Sartre's analysis of the nature of language, consciousness, knowledge, self, and values. A new postscript takes into account investigations into the life, work and philosophy of France's greatest post-war philosopher.

Sartre (Fontana modern masters)

Danto, Arthur Coleman

Literature & Fiction

Fontana

Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective

In Danto's view, Andy Warhol's Brillo Box was not only a radical attack on traditional definitions of the art work; it brought the history of Western art to a close. In this collection of interconnected essays, he grapples with this and many more of the most challenging issues in art today, from the problems of contemporary pluralism to the dilemmas of censorship and state support for artists.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

In Encounters and Reflections, Danto broadens the debate on painting and sculpture in the late eighties to include not only major points on the map but also current assumptions about great masters. This work reveals an inspiring thinker at the peak of his powers.

Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

An Incisive Account of the Bizarre, Often Bewildering Art World of Today Arthur Danto's new collection finds him, and the art world, at a point when the art world has become pluralistic, even chaotic-with one medium as good as the next-when the moment for "next things" has passed. Since 1984, when Danto-already an eminent philosopher--became The Nation's art critic, he has been one of the foremost theorists of contemporary art's history and evolution, and at the same time the most incisive and illuminating critic of new work. In his view, the historical development of art reached a kind of zenith in the pop period, most famously with Warhol's Brillo Boxes. Danto's five volumes of review essays (all published by FSG) form a kind of chronicle of the art world since the Brillo moment, and a running appraisal of the great variety of significant work made since then. In this new book, he shows how work that bridges the gap between art and life is now the definitive work of our time: Damien Hirst's arrays of skeletons and anatomical models, Barbara Kruger's tchotchke-ready slogans, Renee Cox's nude portrait of herself at the Last Supper. To the obvious question--is this stuff really art?--Danto replies with an enthusiastic yes, explaining, with a philosopher's clarity and an art lover's sense of delight, how these "unnatural wonders" show us who we are.

Arthur C. Danto's ground-breaking collection of interconnected essays grapples with the most challenging issues in art today, among them the problems of contemporary pluralism and the dilemmas of censorship and state support for artists.

Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt.

Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations

A central theme of this book is that the main problems of philosophy and certainly the main traditional problems in the theory of knowledge, concern the space between language and the world. Professor Danto distinguishes between descriptive concepts, concerned with saying how the world is and semantic concepts, which have to do with the application of descriptions of the world. Failure to make these distinctions is responsible for a class of seemingly irresolvable disputes over the foundations of knowledge; but when the distinction is appreciated, a plausible philosophical theory of what it is to know the world can be framed which is free from the standard scepticisms.

Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot involve. In the course of constructing such a theory, he seeks to demonstrate the relationship between philosophy and art, as well as the connections that hold between art and social institutions and art history. 
 The book distinguishes what belongs to artistic theory from what has traditionally been confused with it, namely aesthetic theory and offers as well a systematic account of metaphor, expression, and style, together with an original account of artistic representation. A wealth of examples, drawn especially from recent and contemporary art, illuminate the argument.

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art

Harvard University Press

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson Constructing A Legend

Rapaport, Brooke Kamin

Nevelson, Louise

Jewish Museum (New

Yale

Nothing Personal: Paintings 1987-1997 by Ida Applebroog, Arthur C. Danto, Terrie Sultan Ida Applebroog (b. 1929) has received international acclaim for the complexly psychological sensibility of her large, multi-paneled paintings. The deceptive, childlike quality of her work masks sometimes startlingly violent themes. This book, which serves as catalog to a major upcoming exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., showcases the work of the painter's productive past eleven years, and is among the most substantial collections of her art.(less)

Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings 1987-1997

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Allison, Dorothy

Sultan, Terrie

Applebroog, Ida

History

Distributed Art Pub Inc

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Sartre (Fontana modern masters)

Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective

Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective

Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations

Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art

The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson Constructing A Legend

Ida Applebroog: Nothing Personal, Paintings 1987-1997