The Madonna of the Future

by Danto, Arthur C.

• ISBN13: 9780520230026
• ISBN10: 0520230027
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Danto writes about the contemporary art to be seen in museums and galleries, placing it in the context of the history of modern art and of current debates about essential ideas in our society.

Author Biography

Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Art and Meaning	xvii
John Heartfield and Montage	3	(8)
Hand-Painted Pop	11	(9)
RRyman	20	(9)
Lucien Freud	29	(10)
Robert Zakanitch's Big Bungalow Suite	39	(9)
Robert Morris: Body and Mind	48	(9)
Richard Avedon	57	(9)
Clement Greenberg	66	(2)
Salvador Dali	68	(9)
James Coleman, Slide Artist	77	(9)
Cy Twombly	86	(9)
Willem de Kooning	95	(10)
Japanese Avant-garde Art	105	(9)
Franz Kline	114	(9)
R. B. Kitaj	123	(9)
Bruce Nauman	132	(10)
The Whitney Biennial, 1995	142	(9)
Sofonisba Anguissola	151	(9)
TV and Video	160	(10)
Florine Stettheimer	170	(8)
Constantin Brancusi	178	(8)
Vermeer	186	(8)
Abstraction	194	(8)
Meyer Schapiro, 1904-1996	202	(4)
Edward Kienholz	206	(7)
Letter from Vienna	213	(7)
Picasso and the Portrait	220	(8)
Nan Goldin's World	228	(7)
Jasper Johns	235	(7)
Outsider Art	242	(8)
Tiepolo at 300	250	(8)
The 1997 Whitney Biennial	258	(7)
Arakawa-Gins	265	(8)
Robert Rauschenberg	273	(8)
Richard Diebenkorn	281	(7)
Mughal Painting	288	(8)
Fernand Leger	296	(8)
Yasmina Reza's ART	304	(8)
Abstracting Soutine	312	(8)
``Art Into Life'': Rodchenko	320	(8)
The Late Works of Delacroix	328	(7)
Rothko and Beauty	335	(8)
Pollock and the Drip	343	(8)
Degas in Vegas	351	(9)
Ray Johnson	360	(8)
The American Century	368	(8)
Warhol and the Politics of Prints	376	(9)
The Bride & the Bottle Rack	385	(8)
``Sensation'' in Brooklyn	393	(8)
Shiran Neshat's Rapture	401	(7)
The American Century: Part II	408	(8)
The Work of Art and the Historical Future	416