Tag philosophy of art

November 25, 2013
in Humanities, Philosophy

Remembering Arthur Danto and the “end of art”

November 25, 2013
in Humanities, Philosophy

Arthur C. Danto, a celebrated art critic and philosopher, died on October 25th in New York. Danto was Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University and served as The Nation’s art critic from 1984 to 2009. Danto famously once declared the “end of art.” While some have taken his controversial declaration to mean that people in

April 23, 2013
in Humanities, Philosophy

Arthur Danto on What Art Is

April 23, 2013
in Humanities, Philosophy

Arthur Danto, the influential art critic and a professor emeritus of aesthetics and history at Columbia University, once famously declared the End of Art. “In our narrative, at first only mimesis [imitation] was art, then several things were art but each tried to extinguish its competitors, and then, finally, it became