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Art and posthistory : conversations on the end of aesthetics
- Title
- Art and posthistory : conversations on the end of aesthetics / Arthur C. Danto and Demetrio Paparoni ; foreword by Barry Schwabsky.
- Author
- Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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- Description
- lxvi, 110 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "From 1995 until just before his death, Arthur C. Danto engaged in and recorded frequent conversations with prominent Italian philosopher and art critic Demetrio Paparoni. Their talks ranged widely over topics from American Pop Art to Minimalism, from abstraction to appropriationism, from posthistorical art to the end of aesthetics, revealing the central core of Danto's thought on topics that shaped and continue to shape questions about the meaning and future of contemporary art. The text is very rich: in one paragraph, for example, Danto talks about a Franz Kline exhibition in the context of Richard Diebenkorn, the radically different techniques used for the paintings and drawings, and the mechanical processes Kline used that enlisted the participation of an animator or colorist as indicative of the lack of importance he gave to the idea of individual artist as creator. The book reveals the intellectual excitement of Danto in person, speculating in a freewheeling rather than analytical style. On several occasions Danto and Paparoni were joined by Danto's partner Barbara Westman, an artist and illustrator credited with many New Yorker covers, and by artist Mimmo Paladino and philosopher Mario Perniola, enlivening the discussion further"--
- Series Statement
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Uniform Title
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
- Alternative Title
- Conversations on the end of aesthetics
- Subject
- Aesthetics
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-96) and index.
- Contents
- In Judy's Bedroom -- 1. History and Posthistory (1995) -- 2. Style, Narration, and Posthistory (1998) -- 3. The Angelic vs. the Monstrous (1998) -- 4. Art Criticism as Analytic Philosophy (2012).
- Call Number
- JQD 22-305
- ISBN
- 9780231204767
- 0231204760
- 9780231204774
- 0231204779
- LCCN
- 2021043484
- OCLC
- 1268121263
- Author
- Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013, author.
- Title
- Art and posthistory : conversations on the end of aesthetics / Arthur C. Danto and Demetrio Paparoni ; foreword by Barry Schwabsky.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the artsColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-96) and index.
- Added Author
- Paparoni, Demetrio, author.Schwabsky, Barry, writer of foreword.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013. Art and posthistory New York : Columbia University Press, 2022 9780231555692 (DLC) 2021043485
- Research Call Number
- JQD 22-305