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Arthur C. Danto

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January 01, 1924 in Ann Arbor, The United States

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Arthur Coleman Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 1, 1924. He is an American art critic and professor of philosophy. He is best known as the influential, long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he has contributed significantly to a number of fields. His interests span thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Arthur Schopenhauer.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 1,261 ratings · 122 reviews · 98 distinct works

	After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History 3.99 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art 4.15 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1981 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Andy Warhol 3.74 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics & the Concept of Art 4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post Historical Pe 3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art by Arthur C. Danto, Jonathan Gilmore (Foreword by) 3.68 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Nietzsche as Philosopher 3.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Encounters and Reflections 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits. ”
― Arthur C. Danto, After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History

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