Arthur Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and the most influential philosopher of art in the last half century. As

One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.

Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new the

Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto d

From the nineteen-eighties on, Arthur Danto was the most significant art critic and philosopher of art in world. This book provides a comprehensive, systematic