Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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 Greenberg. Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn analyze the constellation of philosophical and critical elements in Danto's new- Hegelian art theory. In a provocative encounter, they employ themes from Kantian aesthetics to elucidate the continuing persistence of taste in shaping even this most sophisticated philosophy of art.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Art's means and philosophical ends -- The wake of art: criticism, philosophy, and the ends of taste / Gregg Horowitz and Tom Huhn -- Blam! The explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964 -- The philosophical disenfranchisement of art -- Learning to live with pluralism -- Symbolic expressions and the self -- Art after the end of art -- Hans Haacke and the industry of art -- Red Grooms -- Tilted arc and public art -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial -- The 1991 Whitney Biennial -- The 1993 Whitney Biennial -- The Abstract Expressionist Coca-Cola bottle -- Afterword: after taste.