Arthur Danto
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American art critic and philosopher
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#288
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#45
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Aesthetics
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#5
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#2
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#574
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#117
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Arthur Danto's Degrees
- PhD Philosophy Columbia University
- Masters Philosophy Columbia University
- Bachelors Art History and Philosophy Wayne State University
Why Is Arthur Danto Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Coleman Danto was an American art critic, philosopher, and professor at Columbia University. He was best known for having been a long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he contributed significantly to a number of fields, including the philosophy of action. His interests included thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Arthur Danto's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (1974) (502)
- After the end of art : contemporary art and the pale of history (1998) (400)
- The transfiguration of the commonplace : a philosophy of art (1982) (391)
- Narration and Knowledge (1985) (283)
- Nietzsche as Philosopher (1965) (210)
- The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1985) (202)
- Analytical Philosophy of History (1966) (175)
- The abuse of beauty : aesthetics and the concept of art (2003) (159)
- Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (1992) (145)
- After the End of Art (1996) (85)
- Analytical Philosophy of Action (1973) (73)
- The Abuse Of Beauty (2003) (69)
- Culture Wars : Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts (1992) (68)
- Danto’s philosophy of history in retrospective (2009) (63)
- What Art Is (2013) (62)
- Narration and knowledge : including the integral text of analytical philosophy of history (2007) (60)
- What We Can Do (1963) (54)
- The End of Art: A Philosophical Defense (1998) (50)
- Art on the Edge and over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s-1990s (1998) (47)
- Science as an international system (1983) (42)
- Consciousness and motor control (1985) (38)
- Philosophy as/and/of Literature (1984) (37)
- Artworks and real things (2008) (37)
- Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays (1999) (35)
- Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste (1998) (35)
- Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays & Aesthetic Meditations (1994) (34)
- Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life (2005) (29)
- The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (2000) (26)
- Character and Free Will (1957) (26)
- Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge (1968) (24)
- The Body/Body Problem: Selected Essays (1999) (24)
- Seeing and Showing (2001) (24)
- Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy (1969) (24)
- Joseph Beuys : the reader (2007) (23)
- Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (1990) (21)
- Embodied Meanings, Isotypes, and Aesthetical Ideas (2007) (20)
- Some Remarks on The Genealogy of Morals (1986) (19)
- Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (1995) (18)
- Art/Artifact: African Art in Anthropology Collections (1988) (18)
- Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art (2004) (18)
- On Explanations in History (1956) (17)
- Narrative and Style (1991) (15)
- From aesthetics to art criticism and back (1996) (15)
- INDISCERNIBILITY AND PERCEPTION: A REPLY TO JOSEPH MARGOLIS (1999) (13)
- The Death of Art (1984) (13)
- Greenberg’s Kant and the Fate of Aesthetics in Contemporary Art Theory (2010) (12)
- Connections to the world : the basic concepts of philosophy : with a new preface (1990) (12)
- The Andy Warhol Museum (1994) (12)
- The End of Time; a Meditation on the Philosophy of History (1982) (11)
- Mere Chronicle and History Proper (1953) (10)
- Depiction and description. (1982) (10)
- Phenomenology of Place (2007) (10)
- Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985 (2007) (9)
- The Pigeon within Us All: A Reply to Three Critics (2001) (8)
- Connections to the World (1989) (8)
- LANGUAGE AND THE TAO: SOME REFLECTIONS ON INEFFABILITY (1973) (8)
- Art, Essence, History, and Beauty: A Reply to Carrier, a Response to Higgins (1996) (8)
- Action, Knowledge, and Representation (1976) (8)
- The unknown masterpiece, and, Gambara (2001) (8)
- Comment on Gewirth Constructing an Epistemology of Human Rights: a Pseudo Problem? (1984) (8)
- Narratives of the End of Art (1989) (7)
- Art, Evolution, and the Consciousness of History (1986) (7)
- Metaphor and Cognition (1993) (7)
- Mind as Feeling; Form as Presence; Langer as Philosopher (1984) (6)
- Concerning Mental Pictures (1958) (6)
- Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills (1990) (6)
- Mark Tansey: Visions and Revisions (1992) (6)
- Causality, Representations, and the Explanation of Actions (1979) (6)
- The use and mention of terms and the simulation of linguistic understanding (1980) (6)
- Sheila Hicks weaving as metaphor (2006) (6)
- II. Causation and basic actions (1970) (5)
- The end of art and beyond : essays after Danto (1997) (4)
- A future for aesthetics (1993) (4)
- On Historical Questioning (1954) (4)
- From Philosophy to Art Criticism (2002) (4)
- On Artists, Scientists and Historians: A Response to Arthur Loeb. With Reply by Arthur Loeb and Comments by Samuel Edgerton and Arthur C. Danto (2017) (4)
- Cindy Sherman: History Portraits (1993) (4)
- Art and the Text (1983) (4)
- Brushes with history : writing on art from The nation : 1865-2001 (2001) (3)
- "Anything Goes": The Work of Art and the Historical Future (1997) (3)
- Philosophy and/as Film and/as If Philosophy@@@Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1982) (3)
- The Future of the Madonna (1998) (3)
- What Philosophy Is a Guide to the Elements (1968) (3)
- Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction (2003) (3)
- Approaching the End of Art (2005) (3)
- The notional world of D. C. Dennett (1988) (3)
- Beyond representation: In their own voice: philosophical writing and actual experience (1996) (3)
- Embodiment, Art History, Theodicy, and the Abuse of Beauty: A Response to My Critics (2005) (3)
- An Answer or Two for Sparshott (1976) (3)
- The Transfiguration of the Commonplace.The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art.The State of the Art (1990) (2)
- Laws and Explanation in History. William Dray (1958) (2)
- E. H. Gombrich (1983) (2)
- The Naked Truth (2008) (2)
- II. The Appreciation and Interpretation of Works of Art (2005) (2)
- Images, labels, concepts, and propositions: Some reservations regarding Premack's “abstract code” (1983) (2)
- The Paradigm Case Argument and the Free-Will Problem (1959) (2)
- Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South: The Ronald and June Shelp Collection (2002) (2)
- Brill's studies in epistemology, psychology, and psychiatry (1989) (2)
- On writing Nietzsche as philosopher (2005) (2)
- Aesthetics and ethics: The naked truth (1998) (2)
- Seven objections against Austin's analysis of “I know” (1962) (2)
- The Philosophy of Arthur C. Danto (2013) (2)
- The Problem of Other Periods (1966) (2)
- Interview: Arthur C. Danto: Art and analysis (1998) (1)
- The Seat of the Soul: Three Chairs (1987) (1)
- Aesthetic Responses and Works of Art (1981) (1)
- The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend (1967) (1)
- Replies to Essays (2012) (1)
- Why We Need Fiction: An Interview with Arthur C. Danto (1997) (1)
- Analytical philosophy of history / by Arthur C. Danto (1965) (1)
- Works of Art and Mere Real Things (2017) (1)
- Translation and Betrayal (1997) (1)
- Nausea and Noesis: Some Philosophical Problems for Sartre (1981) (1)
- From the Inside Out : Eight Contemporary Artists (1993) (1)
- IdaApplebroog : nothing personal, paintings 1987-1997 (1998) (1)
- Masterpieces and the Museum (1990) (1)
- Philosophers and the ritual of marriage (2008) (1)
- Symposium: Arthur Danto, The Abuse of Beauty (2005) (1)
- Deception and explanatory economy (1988) (1)
- Beyond Sense and Nonsense: Perspectives on the Ontological at 30 (1997) (1)
- Theology as a Hermeneutical Salvaging of History: Commentary (1986) (1)
- The politics of imagination (1988) (1)
- In memoriam: Robert Denoon Cumming (2004) (1)
- La Quarta Critica Kantiana (1956) (1)
- Howard Ben Tre (1999) (1)
- Robert Motherwell on paper : drawings, prints, collages (1997) (1)
- Pictorial Possibility. Discussion of Ulf Linde’s paper “Image and Dimension” (1988) (1)
- Book Review:Time and Idea: The Theory of History in Giambattista Vico. A. Robert Caponigri (1954) (0)
- DIA volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1967) (0)
- The Dignity of the Profane (2008) (0)
- Robert Mangold : curled figure and column paintings (2003) (0)
- From Photography to Philosophy: Two Moments oF Post-Traditional Art (2011) (0)
- Michel Gérard : the american decade : 1989-1999 (2002) (0)
- Determinism and Inevitability (1971) (0)
- The Age of Danto (2021) (0)
- Censorship and Subsidy in the Arts (1993) (0)
- Philosophy of Science Readings Selected, Edited, and Introduced by Arthur Danto and Sidney Morgenbesser (1960) (0)
- In Memoriam: James J. Walsh (2003) (0)
- Philosophy of Science.The Structure of Scientific Thought: An Introduction to Philosophy of (1961) (0)
- Architectural principles in the art of Sean Scully (2007) (0)
- Angel chairs: New works by Wendell Castle (1991) (0)
- Review: My Architect: A Son's Journey by Nathaniel Kahn (2005) (0)
- A Dozen Years of Solitude: Hilton Kramer (1986) (0)
- TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL; THE NEW HISTORY AND THE REBIRTH OF NARRATIVE (2016) (0)
- Recent Books Which Relate Indian and Western PhilosophyEpistemology, Logic, and Grammar in Indian Philosophical Analysis.Phenomenology and Ontology.Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy (1977) (0)
- FOUR. Moving Images (2017) (0)
- Meaning and Theoretical Terms in Psychoanalysis (2020) (0)
- Francesco Clemente: A Private Geography (2011) (0)
- Joel Shapiro: Recent Sculpture (2003) (0)
- Mind as Feeling, Form as Presence (1984) (0)
- Saving Art from Aesthetics@@@Of Mind and Other Matters@@@The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art@@@Reconstructing Aesthetics (1987) (0)
- Damien Hirst: The Complete Medicine Cabinets (2011) (0)
- Behaviorism's new cognitive representations: Paradigm regained (1982) (0)
- Cy Twombly : catalogue raisonné of sculpture (1997) (0)
- Variations in pictorial culture (1989) (0)
- History and Philosophy of Science: Roots of Scientific Thought. A Cultural Perspective (1958) (0)
- Role and Rule in Oriental Thought: Some Metareflections on Dharma and Li (1972) (0)
- Metaphor and Symbol in the Interpretation of Art (0)
- June Wayne : the art of everything : a catalogue raisonné, 1936-2006 (2007) (0)
- Roots of Scientific Thought . A cultural perspective. Philip P. Wiener and Aaron Noland, Eds. Basic Books, New York, 1957. x +677 pp. $8. (1958) (0)
- The Past in the Present (2008) (0)
- The Color of Time: The Photographs of Sean Scully (2004) (0)
- Remembering Andre Racz (1998) (0)
- The Social Sciences in Historical Study; A Report of the Committee on Historiography (1955) (0)
- VI. Art and Disturbation (2005) (0)
- Ontology, Criticism, and the Riddle of Art Versus Non-Art in The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (2008) (0)
- It doesn't come as a shock (2002) (0)
- Rockin' with the minister of fun (1993) (0)
- Spirit and the perception of art El Espíritu y la percepción del arte (2014) (0)
- Sarah Sze at The Fabric Workshop and Museum (2014) (0)
- Four-and-twenty blackboards (1993) (0)
- FOREWORD. Chiang Yee As I Knew Him (2020) (0)
- Jacob El Hanani : drawings (2015) (0)
- Afterword: Not by a Soap Box but First by a Kiss (2012) (0)
- Doodling towards Armenia (1999) (0)
- A NOTE ON EXPRESSIONS OF THE REFERRING SORT (1958) (0)
- Symposium: On David carrier's artwriting. Author's reply (1998) (0)
- Balagangadhara Morality and the Moral Self Comparative Anthropology and Moral Domains : An Essay on Selfless (2006) (0)
- Comment by Arthur C. Danto (1986) (0)
- Mapplethorpe@@@Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe@@@Mapplethorpe: A Biography@@@Mapplethorpe Altars (1996) (0)
- Psychoanalysis and Ethics.Lewis Samuel Feuer (1956) (0)
- Skinner on the verbal behavior of verbal behaviorists (1984) (0)
- Symposium: The Historicity of the Eye Danto, The Pigeon within Us All 39 (2016) (0)
- SIX. Andy Warhol Enterprises (2017) (0)
- Bioethical Art (2006) (0)
- The greatness of narcissus (1993) (0)
- Introduction to Symbolic Logic (1954) (0)
- Metonymy and Transition in Carrier's Writing (1998) (0)
- The State of the Art@@@The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (1988) (0)
- THREE. The Brillo Box (2017) (0)
- Cultural Lobotomy: The Failure of Philosophy@@@Mysticism and Morality: Oriental Thought and Moral Philosophy (1977) (0)
- The Scholar and the Workman (1999) (0)
- Arthur C. Danto: Remarks on Art and Philosophy (2014) (0)
- Art and Posthistory (2022) (0)
- INDEX TO VOLUMES 36–40 1997–2001 ARTICLES (2008) (0)
- Running head : REVIEW OF NONVERBAL METAPHOR (2001) (0)
- O filósofo como Andy Warhol (2004) (0)
- Spirit and the perception of art (2012) (0)
- Sean Scully : the Cartherine paintings (1993) (0)
- Art and Philosophy (2011) (0)
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