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Prvý preklad textov svetoznámeho filozofa a kritika umenia Arthura C. Danta do slovenčiny. Autor v knihe vychádza z pojmu krásy, ktorý je pevne zakotvený v estetickej teórii a filozofii umenia a pýta sa na jeho relevantnosť vo vzťahu k dianiu na poli súčasného výtvarného umenia. Je možné vnímaťho a definovať ako krásne alebo sú potrebné iné formy prístupu? Erudované úvahy Danto ilustruje príkladmi a analýzami diel Marcela Duchampa, Andyho Warhola, Roberta Motherwella, Barnetta Newmana a ďalších „heretikov“. Pritom vychádza z tvrdenia, že moderní umelci majú legitímne právo odmietnuť krásu, na druhej strane zároveň podčiarkuje potrebu krásy v ľudskom živote, a preto aj v umení. Dantova pútavá filozofia umenia je napísaná pozoruhodným a prístupným jazykom a okrem odborníkov určite zaujme aj prívržencov súčasného umenia.

V knize, která vznikla na základě přednášek pronesených v rámci prestižního cyklu na počest A. W. Mellona, se americký filozof Arthur C. Danto vrátil k jedné z nejprovokativnějších tezí, které pronesl, totiž že umění dospělo ke konci. Tento konec v jeho pojetí neznamená, že se umění přestalo vytvářet, ale že v šedesátých letech 20. století opustilo tradiční dějiny založené na pokroku. Pokud tomu tak je, vyvstává otázka, jak o současném umění přemýšlet jinak než v pojmech tradičního narativu. Tato publikace představuje v určitém smyslu odpověď: uvažuje o úloze muzea, roli estetiky, nutnosti změnit charakter kritiky, a především o svobodě, kterou přinesl pluralismus umění.

This text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years. Focusing on 100 Hicks miniatures from many public and private collections, it includes three informative essays as well as illustrations of the artist's related drawings, photographs and chronology.

Seven influential modern thinkers explore the origins of their philosophical contributions through a series of insightful essays. A. J. Ayer discusses the foundations of his logical positivism, while Martin Buber reflects on his understanding of existence. The collection also features perspectives from esteemed figures like Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, and Jean-Paul Sartre, each delving into the intellectual journeys that shaped their ideas and legacies in philosophy.

Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, one of the best-known art critics of his time, presents radical insights into art’s irrevocable deviation from its previous course and the decline of traditional aesthetics. He demonstrates the necessity for a new type of criticism in the face of contemporary art’s wide-open possibilities. This Princeton Classics edition includes a new foreword by philosopher Lydia Goehr.

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Art and Posthistory presents these rich dialogues and correspondence, testifying to the ongoing importance of Danto's ideas.

"Art/Artifact presents 160 objects of art and ethnography selected from the Buffalo Museum of Science, the Hampton University Museum (Virginia), and the American Museum of Natural History (New York City). All three are anthropology museums founded in the 1860s with distinguished African collections. The essays examine the shifting definitions of art and artifact, and deal with the question of how we look at objects from cultures whose classification systems differ from our own. They ask what transforms an ordinary object, or mundane materials, into a work of art: a pile of tires in front of the Whitney Museum is viewed as art where the same pile in a gas station clearly is not."--Back cover

Danto argues that recent developments in art-in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things-make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.

"Arthur C. Danto's five volumes of review essays form a chronicle of the art world in our time, and a running appraisal of the great variety of significant work made in our midst." "In this new book, Danto 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 presiding 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 delight, how these "unnatural wonders" show us who we are."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Arthur C. Danto traces the evolution of the concept of beauty during the 20th century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art. schovat popis