Последние издания книг Артура Данто

«Что такое искусство?» — книга арт-критика Артура Данто, в которой он ставит под сомнение популярную интерпретацию искусства как понятия, не имеющего конкретного смысла, и теоретизирует характеристики искусства, составляющие универсальное определение. Данто утверждает, что, несмотря на разнообразные подходы, произведение искусства определяется двумя…

Коробка не могла бы стать искусством еще полвека назад, как не могло быть, при прочих равных, страховки авиаперелета в Средневековье или ластика для пишущей машинки у этрусков. Мир должен быть готов к некоторым вещам, и мир искусства в этом смысле ничем не отличается от реального мира. В этом и заключается роль художественных теорий, сегодня и во все времена: делать возможным мир искусства и само искусство.
Артур Данто

What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that, despite varied approaches, a work of art is always defined by two essential criteria: meaning and embodiment, as well as one additional criterion contributed by the viewer: interpretation. Danto crafts his argument accessibly, engaging with both philosophy and art across genres and eras, beginning with Plato's definition of art in The Republic and continuing through the progress of art as a series of discoveries, including such innovations as perspective, chiaroscuro, and physiognomy. Danto concludes with a fascinating discussion of Andy Warhol's famous shipping cartons, which are visually indistinguishable from the everyday objects they represent.

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. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol's time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure-artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher-who retains permanent residence in our national imagination. Danto suggests that "what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything, or nearly everything he made art out of came straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans. . . . The tastes and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from advanced art."

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and

An Incisive Account of the Bizarre, Often Bewildering Art World of Today Arthur Danto's new collection finds him, and the art world, at a point when the art world has become pluralistic, even chaotic-with one medium as good as the next-when the moment for "next things" has passed. Since 1984, when Danto-already an eminent philosopher--became "The Nation's" art…

In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C. Danto explored the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy. In light of the book's impact--especially the essay "The End of Art," which dramatically announced that art ended in the 1960s--this enhanced edition includes a foreword by Jonathan…

Данто полагает, что задача философии не в том, чтобы размышлять или говорить о мире, а, скорее, в том, чтобы анализировать способы размышлений и высказываний о мире. Его книга - первый на русском языке анализ исторического мышления и языка,

Российскому читателю предстоит познакомиться с книгой, которая во многих отношениях окажется для него неожиданной. А.Данто задумывал и писал свою книгу о Ницше как философ-аналитик. Анализируя идеи и аргументы того или иного философа прошлого, американцы и другие англоязычные философы предпочитают полемизировать с ним как с современником.