Modern Thought Translation Series, Issue 3 -- The End of Art

Author: Arthur Danto (USA)
Translator: Ouyang Ying
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Mr. Danto's perspective offers an important correction to naive formalism and the recently emerging "structural analysis of art." The significance of the issues raised in the book is a mark of its importance. — The New York Times Book Review
Danto is a writer with a fluent style and a convincing theorist. The arguments in this book are coherent, not only accessible to the general critical reader but also valuable to students and scholars of philosophy and art. — Library Journal
Danto's critical writings — wise and elegant — always bring pleasure to the reader. — The Philosophical Review
The author attempts to explain themes related to art, the interpretation of art, and the relationship between art and philosophy, as well as art and historical consciousness. The purpose is to demonstrate that we have entered a post-historical era, where the constant self-revolutionary demand for art has now disappeared. Reading this book is like reading an independent philosophical history.