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The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art

The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art

Arthur Coleman Danto

In 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

After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History

Arthur Coleman Danto

After 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 ...
Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Arthur C. Danto

In 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.
Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present

Arthur Coleman Danto

Provides a collection of essays on modern art covering such artists as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe
Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays

Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays

Arthur Coleman Danto

An eclectic collection of essays centering on the intersection of art and philosophy, especially in the late 20th century.
Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor

Sheila Hicks Weaving as Metaphor

Arthur Coleman Danto

This text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years.
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art

The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art

Arthur Coleman Danto

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 ...
Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy

Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy

Arthur Coleman Danto

Examining 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

Howard Ben Tré

Arthur Coleman Danto

Howard 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.
Drama Criticism [by] Arthur Coleman and Gary R. Tyler

Drama Criticism [by] Arthur Coleman and Gary R. Tyler

Arthur Coleman

KING JOHN Allen, Neal W. Jr. "Clio and the Bard," Union College Symposium, pp . 14-16 (Summer, 1964). Bonjour, Adrien. "Bastinado for the Bastard ?" English Studies, 45 (Supplement) : 169-176 (1964). . "The Road to Swinstead Abbey: A ...
Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste

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

Arthur C. Danto

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Standardized Test Prep 1

Standardized Test Prep 1

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A Bessie Coleman was born in Texas in 1892. B Bessie Coleman worked hard to reach her goal. C Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman to become an airplane pilot. 5 Which event happened first? A Coleman went to France.
Nietzsche as Philosopher

Nietzsche as Philosopher

Arthur C. Danto

This 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.
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Otters

Otters

David Stone

... Jeff Foott/Bruce Coleman, 6t P.A. Hinchliffe/Bruce Coleman, 6b Uni of Essex, 7 H. Jungius/WWF, 8 R Ostfeld, 9 H. lungius/WWF, 10 Leonard Lee Rue/Bruce Coleman, 11 Jeff Foott / Bruce Coleman, 12 Mark Boulton/ICCE, 13 F. Vollmar/ WWF ...
Jet

Jet

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When they got through stomping on Daniels' grave with lurid charges, it seemed almost like the victim was on trial for making Tom Coleman mad, instead of Coleman being on trial for manslaughter. Tom Coleman admitted he killed the young ...
Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto

Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto

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... 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.
Blood of the Beloved

Blood of the Beloved

Mary Coleman

Mary Coleman. BLOOD OF THE BELOVED Mary Coleman iUniverse, Inc. New York Lincoln Shanghai Blood of the Beloved Copyright © 2007 by Mary Coleman .
Untold Story of Champ, The: A Social History of America's ...

Untold Story of Champ, The: A Social History of America's ...

Robert E. Bartholomew

Archives of Loren Coleman's Cyptomundo website and personal com- munication between Robert Bartholomew and Loren Coleman, March 2010. 32. Email from Dennis J. Hall to Loren Coleman dated July 22, 2003. 33. Ibid. 34. Email from ...
The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban ...

The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban ...

David Coleman

David Coleman. The Presidential Recordings Program is supported in part by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. ... The fourteenth day:JFK andthe aftermath of theCubanMissileCrisis/ David G. Coleman.
The Autisms

The Autisms

Mary Coleman

Rev. ed. of: Biology of the autistic syndromes / Christopher Gillberg, Mary Coleman. 3rd ed. 2000.
Duty to Investigate: A Novel

Duty to Investigate: A Novel

J. W. Stone

At that point, the President of DNS, Tom Coleman, spoke up. Anne had not known exactly who'd been listening to the conversation. “Now listen, Anne,” Coleman said. “There is nothing complicated about this. If you delay the story, we lose ...
Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman

Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman

Stephen Rush

Yet this book offers a clear and thorough approach to these complex methods, outlining Coleman s position as the developer of a logical and historically significant system of jazz improvisation.
Copper Wire and Electrical Conductors: The Shaping of a ...

Copper Wire and Electrical Conductors: The Shaping of a ...

Barrie Charles Blake-Coleman

An admirable study of a vital modern technology that traces its roots to perhaps 3000 BC. Blake-Coleman began this history as a thesis; he's obviously been unable to let go.
"Just Mary" Reader: Mary Grannan Selected Stories

"Just Mary" Reader: Mary Grannan Selected Stories

Mary Grannan

NAN: 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.
Las mil caras de Anonymous

Las mil caras de Anonymous

Gabriella Coleman

En 2010, la antropóloga Gabriella Coleman inició un profundo trabajo de campo sobre el auge de este fenómeno global, al tiempo que algunos de sus miembros se adentraban en el mundo de la protesta política y el activismo informático ...

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