Research Catalog

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.

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Additional Authors

• Paparoni, Demetrio
• Schwabsky, Barry

Description

lxvi, 110 pages; 22 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\u0027s 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\u0027s 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"--

Subject

Aesthetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780231204767
• 0231204760
• 9780231204774
• 0231204779
• 9780231555692 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2021043484

OCLC

• on1268121263
• 1268121263

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries