Main entry:

Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013.

Title & Author:

Philosophizing art : selected essays / Arthur C. Danto.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.

Description:

xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The "original creative principle" : Motherwell and psychic automatism -- Art-in-response -- The philosopher as Andy Warhol -- Illustrating a philosophical text : Mel Bochner's Wittgenstein drawings -- Giotto and the stench of Lazarus -- Postmodern art and concrete selves : the model of the Jewish Museum -- The seat of the soul : Three chairs -- Munakata in New York : a memory of the 1950s -- Louis Kahn as archai-tekt -- Moving pictures -- Gettysburg -- Art and taxpayers -- Arts and the discourse of nations.

Summary:

In these essays, collected over the last twenty years, Danto probes the relationship between philosophy and art, as he has done throughout his career. Danto explores this relationship through an electric mix of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas, or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms. The essays cover a varied terrain, with subjects including Giotto's use of olfactory data in The Raising of Lazarus; chairs in art and chairs as art, Mel Bochner's Wittgenstein drawings; the work of Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, and Robert Irwin; Louis Kahn as "Archai-Tekt", and visual truth in film.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520212835 (alk. paper)
9780520212831 (alk. paper)
0520229061
9780520229068

Subject:

Art Philosophy.
Art Philosophie.
Kunst.
Filosofie.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207062
Call No.: N71 .D3 1999
Status: Available