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Andy Warhol
Arthur C. DantoIn a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations.
The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art
Arthur Coleman DantoIn The Abuse of Beauty, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto explains how the notion of beauty as anathema to art arose and flourished and offers a new way of looking at art and beauty.
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
Arthur Coleman DantoAfter the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it ...
Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste
Arthur C. DantoFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Nietzsche as Philosopher
Arthur C. DantoThis new edition, which includes five additional essays, not only further enhances our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy; it responds to the misunderstandings that continue to muddy his intellectual reputation.
Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
Arthur Coleman DantoProvides a collection of essays on modern art covering such artists as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe
Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays
Arthur Coleman DantoAn eclectic collection of essays centering on the intersection of art and philosophy, especially in the late 20th century.
Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor
Arthur Coleman DantoThis text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years.
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
Arthur Coleman DantoThe 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 ...
Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy
Arthur Coleman DantoExamining the work of Plato, Descartes, Hume and Wittgenstein, this introduction to the central topics of Western philosophical thought explores debates about empiricism, the mind/body problem, the nature of matter, and the status of ...
Howard Ben Tré
Arthur Coleman DantoHoward Ben Tre provides a comprehensive survey of the artist's oeuvre in stunning colorplates of his major sculptures, including many recent public projects, as well as his works on paper.
Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto
Preview... explanation exemplify — including "The Function of General Laws in History," which may have seemed a footnote but proved to be one of the movement's crown jewels — to Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr's "History and the Sciences.
"Just Mary" Reader: Mary Grannan Selected Stories
Mary GrannanNAN: Arthur ... 211. IVAN: Arthur ... 212. ARTHUR: I'll do it quick as ... 213. MUSIC : OUT 214. ARTHUR: Oh hello ... you two ... (LAUGH) How are you? 215. NAN: Arthur ... he loves me and I love him. I'm so happy Arthur, so very happy. 216.
Iconoclasm in Aesthetics
Michael KellyDiscusses the work of four influential philosophers of art: Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida, and Danto.
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)
More editionsThe most complete biographical account of Arthur Wesley Dow (hereafter cited as A WD) is given in Arthur Warren Johnson, Arthur Wesley Dow, Historian, Artist, Teacher ( Ipswich, Mass.: Ipswich Historical Society, 1934). Although not in all ...
The Discovery of King Arthur
Geoffrey AsheExamines the evidence concerning the actual life of King Arthur and traces the development of the myth of King Arthur from the twelfth to the twen tieth century
Artwriting
David Carrier'Artwriting' is concerned with texts of recent art critics. The analysis draws on Arhtur Danto's theory of interpretation and upon three connected conceptual points.
Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians
Sooyoung ChangHe wrote Introduction to Diophantine Approximation in 1957 and An Introduction to the Geometry ofNumbers in 1959.3 John Arthur Todd John Arthur Todd John Arthur Todd John Arthur Todd John Todd was born on 23 August 1908 in ...
William Arthur: The Tongue of Fire Or the True Power of ...
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Arthur Ransome's Long-lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson
Arthur RansomeThis is the first publication of a book by Arthur Ransome, originally commissioned in 1910. The manuscript, nearly complete, was sequestered by Ransome's wife in 1914, and he never saw it again.
Unnatural wonders: essays from the gap between art and life
PreviewDanto considers the work of such young artists as John Currin and Renee Cox and older living masters including Gerhard Richter and Sol LeWitt.
The Three-Body Problem
Catherine ShawDID YOU TAKE THE FLASK OF DIGITALIN FROMMR AKERS ? Arthur: NNNo. NNo. No. I did not. Mr Bexheath: Are you certain? Arthur: Yes! Mr Bexheath: DIDYOU KILL MR.AKERS? Arthur: No! Mr Bexheath: Hmph. Very well. Now, sir, I would ...
The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller
PreviewArthur Miller: A Checklist 1936–1967,” Bulletin of the New York Public Library ( 1970): 107–34. Tetsumaro Hayashi also edited Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams: Research Opportunities and Dissertation Abstracts (Jefferson: McFarland, ...
A Collector of Ambroses and Other Rare Items
Arthur Jean CoxThose hewould gladlymention include “Say That He Still Lives!” and “The Spectacles of Jorge Luis Borges” (both as by Arthur Jean Cox),“Writers of thePurple Page” (as by John Thames Rokesmith), “A Prince ofSnobs” (asby Arthur Pendennis) ...
The New Revelation
Arthur Conan DoyleThis early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859.
A Visit to Three Fronts
Arthur Conan DoyleThis early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859.
Arthur Wesley Dow, 1857-1922: His Art and His Influence
Arthur Wesley DowHis first biographer, Arthur Warren Johnson, recalled an incident early in Dow's career when, on learning of the demise of a cow about four miles out of town, he took his wheelbarrow and collected the remains, the better to study the animal's ...
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