Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The fourth book of Danto's essays finds the celebrated art critic reflecting on the work of past masters, the great painters of the modern period, and the pluralistic descendants of Andy Warhol who dominate the New York art scene today.
Table of Contents
Art and meaning -- John Heartfield and Montage -- Hand-painted pop -- RRyman -- Lucien Freud -- Robert Zakanitch's big bungalow suite -- Robert Morris: body and mind -- Richard Avedon -- Clement Greenberg -- Salvador Dali -- James Coleman, slide artist -- Cy Twombly -- William de Kooning -- Japanese avant-garde art -- Franz Kline -- R. B. Kitaj -- Bruce Nauman -- The Whitney Biennial, 1995 -- Sofonisba Anguissola -- TV and video -- Florine Stettheimer -- Constantin Brancusi -- Vermeer -- Abstraction -- Meyer Schapiro, 1904-1996 -- Edward Kienholz -- Letter from Vienna -- Picasso and the portrait -- Nan Goldin's world -- Jasper Johns -- Outsider art -- Tiepolo at 300 -- The 1997 Whitney Biennial -- Arakawa-Gins -- Robert Rauschenberg -- Richard Diebenkorn -- Mughal painting -- Fernand Lâeger -- Yasmina Reza's ART -- Abstracting Soutine -- "Art into life": Rodchenko -- The late works of Delacroix -- Rothko and beauty -- Pollock and the drip -- Degas in Vegas -- Ray Johnson -- The American century -- Warhol and the politics of prints -- The bride & the bottle rack -- "Sensation" in Brooklyn -- Shiran Neshat's Rapture -- The American century: part II -- The work of art and the historical future.