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The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
Arthur C. Danto
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Description for The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
Arthur C. Danto argues that recent developments in the art world, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and make plain the factors such a theory can and cannot involve. In the course of constructing such a theory, he seeks to demonstrate the relationship between philosophy and art, as well as the connections that hold between art and social institutions and art history.
The book distinguishes what belongs to artistic theory from what has traditionally been confused with it, namely aesthetic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Condition
New
Weight
280g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674903463
SKU
V9780674903463
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About Arthur C. Danto
Arthur C. Danto was Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Reviews for The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
This book is a long meditation on Brillo boxes putting themselves forward as works-of-art, or, ‘gerrymandered’ (Danto raids everywhere for his brilliant figurations) by interpretation into expressiveness, into metaphoricality. Malraux proposes seeing art as a metamorphosis performed by museums and juxtaposition and time (history). Danto proposes art as a metaphor of the commonplace. Art makes obvious things odd; it paradoxicalizes ... Read more