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Encounters and Reflections

Art in the Historical Present

Encounters and Reflections( )
Author: Danto, Arthur C.
ISBN:978-0-520-20846-9
Publication Date:Mar 1997
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

Since 1984, when he became art critic for The Nation, Arthur C. Danto, one of America's most inventive and influential philosophers, has also emerged as one of our most important critics of art. As an essayist, Danto's style is at once rigorous, incisive, and playful. Encounters and Reflections brings together many of his recent critical writings--on artists such as Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and Robert Mapplethorpe; and on the significance of issues like the...
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Book Details
Pages:356
Detailed Subjects: Art / History / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.94 Inches
Book Weight:1.02 Pounds
Author Biography
Danto, Arthur Coleman (Author)
Art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto was born in 1924. He received a B.A. from Wayne State University in 1948 and a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, in 1949 and 1952, respectively. He began teaching at Columbia University in 1951 and has been a professor since 1966. He has received many fellowships and grants including two Guggenheims, ACLS, and Fulbright, and has served as Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association, as well as President of the American Society for Aesthetics. His book Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, a collection of art criticism, won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism. He is also the art critic for The Nation and an editor for the Journal of Philosophy.

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