After the end of art : contemporary art and the pale of history
Arthur C. Danto (Author), Lydia Goehr (Writer of supplementary textual content)
"Originally delivered as the prestigious A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, one of the best-known art critics of his time, presents radical insights into art's irrevocable deviation from its previous course and the decline of traditional aesthetics. He demonstrates the necessity for a new type of criticism in the face of contemporary art's wide-open possibilities"--Page 4 of cover
eBook, English, 2014
First Princeton classics edition View all formats and editions
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2014
A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts, 1995, 35:44, XXXV, 44
1 online resource (xxvi, 239 pages) : illustrations
9780691209302, 0691209308
1256450545
Foreword to the Princeton classics edition
Introduction: modern, postmodern, and contemporary
Three decades after the end of art
Master narratives and critical principles
Modernism and the critique of pure art: the historical vision of Clement Greenberg
From aesthetics to art criticism
Painting and the pale of history: the passing of the pure
Pop art and past futures
Painting, politics, and post-historical art
The historical museum of monochrome art
Museums and the thirsting millions
Modalities of history: Possibility and comedy