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Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays
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Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays
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| | | Arthur Danto's work has always affirmed a deep relationship between philosophy and art. These essays explore this relationship through a number of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms. The essays cover a varied terrain, with subjects including Giotto's use of olfactory data in The Raising of Lazarus; chairs in art and chairs as art; Mel Bochner's Wittgenstein drawings; the work of Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, and Robert Irwin; Louis Kahn as "Archai-Tekt"; and visual truth in film. Also featured are a meditation on the battle of Gettysburg; and a celebration of the Japanese artist Shiko Munakata, an essay that is partly autobiographical.
| PraiseTimes Literary Supplement
"In PHILOSOPHIZING ART, a collection of essays previously published in catalogues and journals, Danto reiterates his argument that the advent of modernism brought art into a new relationship with philosophy, one in which art can actually take philosophy's place as a practical means of inquiry. Typically, Arthur Danto brings a relevant philosophical text to bear on his reading of a work of art. His freedom from prejudice and intellectual buoyancy can be invigorating; he is positively enthusiastic about the liberating effect of postmodernism's "extreme pluralism" and the realization that there are no longer any a priori limits on the definition of art. Perhaps it is because he belongs to such a rare breed, as an art critic with a professional training in analytical philosophy, that his voice seems somewhat solitary, removed from the usual tone of theoretical debates in that realm of determined amateurism that is contemporary art." 11/05/1999 |
| Author Bio| Arthur C. Danto | | Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, became an art critic for "The Nation" after leaving academia. |
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