The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
A Philosophy of Art
Ranked #48 in Aesthetics
Arthur C. Danto argues that recent developments in the art world, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot involve. In the course of constructing such a theory, he seeks to demonstrate the relationship between philosophy and art, as well as the connections that hold between art and social institutions and art history.
The book distinguishes what belongs to artistic theory from what has traditionally been confused with it, namely... more
The book distinguishes what belongs to artistic theory from what has traditionally been confused with it, namely... more
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