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Title: Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy by Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0520208420 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 4
Summary: Danto getting back to basics!!
Comment: I've been studying philosophy for five years now and I found it very useful to read book, because Danto truly brings the reader back to basic questions that I had already forgotten. I think in a way he deals with the biggest question in philosophy namely "What is philosophy". The first part of the book contains a very interesting discussion on nature of philosophical problems and how they differ from scientific ones. After this Danto considers some of the basic concepts of philosophy such as "understanding" "knowledge" and "world". Many might say that Danto's conception is quite old fashioned
If you are interested in Danto's philosophy of art you should read this book, because his conception of philosophy has clearly influenced it. "The problem of indiscernibles", which is the starting point of his philosophy of art, is based on Danto's conception of the nature of philosophical problems. Reading this book will deepen your understanding of his aesthetics.
Danto is a magnificent writer and he is so clear sometimes I had to wonder whether there was anything deep in this book. I think it's not hard to sound deep if you write like some French philosophers, but it is a true sign of a great philosopher that he can express difficult ideas clearly. And Danto manages to fulfil this criterion perfectly.
Rating: 4
Summary: Danto getting back to basics!!
Comment: Danto is one of the most influential but at the same time misconceived philosophers of art today. People have widely misunderstood two of his major thesis. Danto's notion of the "Artworld" has been mixed up with George Dickie's institutional theory of art and the end of art has been taken to mean the death of art. Both of these misconceptions are quite severe. In this book Danto tries to clarify his thoughts and express what he doesn't mean by these notions. For him the end of art means that a certain historical development has come to an end and that pluralism reigns in the artworld. There are no a priori conditions for being an artwork and basically any item in the world can also be an artwork. Danto doesn't see the end of art as a bad thing but he even seems to think that a new golden age of art can begin. But there are also threats if artists aren't ingenious enough. The end of art has also many consequences. Art criticism becomes much harder because all basic guidelines of appreciation and evaluation have disappeared. Every artwork has to be taken as an individual. The philosophical consequence is that the philosophy of art has to change. If anything can be an artwork then no definition of art can be founded on perceptual properties. Danto sees the history of aesthetics as relevantly barren, because philosophers like Kant have considered beauty to be an essential feature of art.
Danto also discusses his notion of the "artworld". In this book he says that he means by this concept that when an object is transfigured into the artworld, this object is set in to a relation with every other artwork in the world and therefore it can posses meanings that mere real things lack. He also takes up an old and neglected idea of the style matrix, which he introduced already in his classic article "The Artworld" that appeared in 1964. I truly find Danto's ideas of the artworld extremely interesting and it is shame that people have misunderstood him so badly. The last article in the book "Modalities of History" is one of the best Danto has ever written and it shows how important the history of art is for him. In the article he tries to show with the help of some examples what he means by the phrase that he inherited from Wöllflin "not everything is possible at every time."
Like always Danto's writing style is very fluent and eloquent. His knowledge on the history of art is just astounding. Many of Danto's books that have appeared after The Transfiguration of the Commonplace haven't been that important for his general theory but this book is absolutely vital if you want to understand his philosophy of art.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Great Read
Comment: Dr. Danto has provided a nicely balanced, well-written overview of the fundamental concepts of Philosophy. This volume offers rich historical context by comparing and contrasting familiar views of both the ancients and contemporary thinkers while incorporating Danto's own perspective. This book is enjoyable to read and accessible to most anyone.
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Title: After the End of Art by Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0691002991 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 09 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays by Arthur C. Danto, Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0520229061 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Transfiguration of the Commonplace by Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0674903463 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World by Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0520230027 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 03 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present by Arthur Coleman Danto ISBN: 0520208463 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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