{"product_id":"after-the-end-of-art-contemporary-art-and-the-pale-of-history-updated-edition-paperback","title":"After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur C. Danto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLydia Goehr\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can't make sense of contemporary art\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA classic of art criticism and philosophy, \u003ci\u003eAfter the End of Art\u003c\/i\u003e 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, argues that traditional notions of aesthetics no longer apply to contemporary art and that we need a philosophy of art criticism that can deal with perhaps the most perplexing feature of current art: that everything is possible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn insightful and entertaining exploration of art's most important aesthetic and philosophical issues conducted by an acute observer of contemporary art, \u003ci\u003eAfter the End of Art\u003c\/i\u003e argues that, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, Danto makes the case for a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhol's Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter the End of Art\u003c\/i\u003e addresses art history, pop art, \"people's art,\" the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg, whose aesthetics-based criticism helped a previous generation make sense of modernism. Tracing art history from a mimetic tradition (the idea that art was a progressively more adequate representation of reality) through the modern era of manifestos (when art was defined by the artist's philosophy), Danto shows that it wasn't until the invention of pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified. Even modernist art, which tried to break with the past by questioning the ways in which art was produced, hinged on a narrative.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur C. Danto \u003c\/b\u003e(1924-2013) was the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eWhat Art Is\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Transfiguration of the Commonplace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmbodied Meanings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Brillo Box\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEncounter and Reflections\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize in Criticism. \u003cb\u003eLydia Goehr \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of philosophy at Columbia University. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Imaginary Museum of Musical Works\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElective Affinities\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.75 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384519803058,"sku":"9780691163895","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1e68aa136aad0e2799656eb59b056db1.webp?v=1777887497","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/after-the-end-of-art-contemporary-art-and-the-pale-of-history-updated-edition-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}