Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and LifeMacmillan, 2005 - 384 páginas An Incisive Account of the Bizarre, Often Bewildering Art World of Today Arthur Danto's new collection finds him, and the art world, at a point when the art world has become pluralistic, even chaotic-with one medium as good as the next-when the moment for "next things" has passed. Since 1984, when Danto-already an eminent philosopher--became "The Nation's" art critic, he has been one of the foremost theorists of contemporary art's history and evolution, and at the same time the most incisive and illuminating critic of new work. In his view, the historical development of art reached a kind of zenith in the pop period, most famously with Warhol's Brillo Boxes. Danto's five volumes of review essays (all published by FSG) form a kind of chronicle of the art world since the Brillo moment, and a running appraisal of the great variety of significant work made since then. In this new book, he shows how work that bridges the gap between art and life is now the definitive work of our time: Damien Hirst's arrays of skeletons and anatomical models, Barbara Kruger's tchotchke-ready slogans, Renee Cox's nude portrait of herself at the Last Supper. To the obvious question--is this stuff really art?--Danto replies with an enthusiastic yes, explaining, with a philosopher's clarity and an art lover's sense of delight, how these "unnatural wonders" show us who we are. |
Índice
Introduction Art Criticism After the End of Art | 3 |
Whitney Biennial 2000 | 19 |
Making Choices at MoMA | 27 |
Chardin | 36 |
Tilman Riemenschneider | 44 |
Damien Hirst | 53 |
Barbara Kruger | 61 |
Yoko Ono | 69 |
Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime | 188 |
Joan Mitchell | 197 |
The Art of 911 One Year Later | 205 |
Reflections on Robert Mangolds Curled Figure and Column Paintings | 213 |
The Park Avenue Cubists | 219 |
Leonardos Drawings | 226 |
Matthew Barneys Cremaster Cycle | 234 |
Christian Schad and the Sachlichkeit of Sex | 242 |
Sean Scully | 77 |
Paul McCarthy | 85 |
Sol LeWitt | 93 |
Renee Cox Yo Mamas Last Supper | 101 |
William Kentridge | 109 |
Picasso Érotique | 117 |
Art and 911 | 125 |
Philip Guston | 132 |
Philip Guston The Nixon Drawings | 139 |
Alberto Giacometti | 147 |
Norman Rockwell | 155 |
Surrealism and Eroticism | 163 |
Artemisia Gentileschi | 172 |
Gerhard Richter | 180 |
Kazimir Malevich | 251 |
Max Beckmann | 258 |
Whitney Biennial 2004 | 265 |
John Currin | 272 |
Dieter Roth | 279 |
Banality and Celebration The Art of Jeff Koons | 286 |
Two Installations by Joshua Neustein | 303 |
Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art Or What Ever Happened to Beauty? | 321 |
The World as Warehouse Fluxus and Philosophy | 333 |
Painting and Politics | 348 |
The Fly in the Fly Bottle The Explanation and Critical Judgment of Works of Art | 355 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life Arthur Coleman Danto Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life Arthur C. Danto Vista previa restringida - 2017 |
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life Arthur C. Danto No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |
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