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9780812695403

The Abuse of Beauty The Paul Carus Lectures 21

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    9780812695403

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    0812695402

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-06-06
  • Publisher: PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST
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Summary

Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist avant-garde dislodged beauty from its throne. Danto argues not only that the modernists were right to deny that beauty is vital to art, but also that beauty is essential to human life and need not always be excluded from art.

Author Biography

Arthur Danto is Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic of The Nation.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: The Aesthetics of the Brillo Box 1(16)
Beauty and the Philosophical Definition of Art
17(22)
The Intractable Avant-Garde
39(22)
Beauty and Beautification
61(20)
Internal and External Beauty
81(22)
Beauty and Politics
103(22)
Three Ways to Look at Art
125(18)
The Beautiful and the Sublime
143(18)
Index 161

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