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  • Andy Warhol

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    Series series Icons of America
    "Astutely traces the ripple effects of Warhol's blurring of the lines between commercial and fine art, and art and real life…masterful."— Booklist (starred review)Art critic, philosopher, and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Art Is

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Unknown Masterpiece

    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    by Honoré de Balzac ...
    Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. In more than ninety novels, he set forth French society and life as he saw it. He created a cast of over two thousand individual and identifiable characters, some of whom reappear in different novels. He organized his works into his masterpiece, *La Comedie Humaine,*which was the final result of his ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unnatural Wonders

    Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Art and Posthistory

    Conversations on the End of Aesthetics

    by Arthur C. Danto, Demetrio Paparoni ...
    Translated by Natalia Iacobelli ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their discussions ranged widely over a vast range of topics, from American pop art and minimalism to abstraction and appropriationism. Yet they continually returned to the concepts at the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Art and Posthistory

    Conversations on the End of Aesthetics

    by Arthur C. Danto, Demetrio Paparoni ...
    Translated by Natalia Iacobelli ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their discussions ranged widely over a vast range of topics, from American pop art and minimalism to abstraction and appropriationism. Yet they continually returned to the concepts at the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • After the End of Art

    Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary artA classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, a philosopher who was also one of the leading art critics of his time, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Wake of Art

    Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste

    by Arthur C. Danto, Gregg Horowitz, Tom Huhn, Saul Ostrow ...
    Series series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
    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 discerns the emergence of a radically pluralistic art world. His essays illuminate this novel art world as well as the fate of criticism within it. As a result, Danto has crafted the most compelling philosophy of art criticism since Clement ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Nietzsche as Philosopher

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    Series series Columbia Classics in Philosophy
    Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offered a systematic and coherent philosophy that anticipated many of the questions that define contemporary ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    An Introduction to Art Theory

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Read more

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  • City Boy

    My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

    by Edmund White ...
    In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    The world-famous masterpiece about a writer's obsessive pursuit of forbidden love by a Nobel Prize laureate.Translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of ... Read more

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