Arthur C. Danto

Lydia Goehr

Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition

After the End of Art

In this book, Lydia Goehr describes how the concept of a musical work fully crystallized around 1800, and subsequently defined the norms, expectations, and behavioral patterns that have come to characterize classical musical practice. The description is set in the context of a more general philosophical account of the rise and fall of concepts and ideals, and of their normative functions; at the same time, debates amongst conductors, early-music performers, andavant-gardists are addressed.

An Essay in the Philosophy of Music

The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works

Diarmuid Costello

Dominique Chateau

Gerard Vilar

Félix de Azúa

Salvador Rubio Marco

Katerina Reed-Tsocha

M.a José Alcaraz

Michael Lafferty

Vicente Jarque

Francisca Pérez Carreño

Jèssica Jaques

Danto propone una definición de la obra de arte como "símbolo encarnado" que pretende dar cuenta del carácter unitario de la historia del arte desde sus comienzos hasta nuestros días, evitando considerar el argumento vanguardista clásico, de carácter estético y formal, como el único capaz de dar sentido a la producción artística. Según Danto, nos encontramos en una época posthistórica, resultado de la evolución del arte hasta su autoconocimiento como actividad conceptual, más allá del modo formal o estético de representación, donde habría estado encastillado por las teorías filosóficas hasta el momento. Esta compilación de artículos aborda la crítica de Danto a lo estético como definitorio de lo artístico, central en su concepción global del arte, de su producción, interpretación y crítica, y de su carácter histórico y su relevancia para la vida humana. Diversos autores, Danto entre ellos, se aprestan a buscar un nuevo lugar para lo estético en nuestra comprensión de lo artístico, una formulación diferente de conceptos que siguen siendo valiosos, como estilo, procedimiento, crítica o experiencia, y una aproximación diferente a la relación entre arte y naturaleza o arte e historia.

Ensayos sobre Arthur Danto

Estética después del fin del arte

Jonathan Gilmore

A Companion to Arthur C. Danto paints a detailed portrait of one the most significant figures in twentieth-century philosophy and art criticism, offering unparalleled coverage of all aspects of Danto’s writings, artworks, and thought. Edited by two long-time colleagues of Arthur Danto, this interdisciplinary resource presents more than 40 original essays from both prominent Danto scholars and leading practitioners from various sub-fields of philosophy. The Companion illuminates Danto’s many contributions to the artworld, aesthetics, criticism, and philosophy of knowledge, action, science, history, and politics. The essays explore central concepts and intersecting themes in Danto’s writings while providing new interventions into the areas of philosophy in which Danto engaged. Topics include Danto’s mode of writing and art production, his critical engagement with artists and philosophers, conflicts in Danto’s views and in interpretations of his works, and much more. An important addition to Danto studies, A Companion to Arthur C. Danto is essential reading for practitioners, scholars, and advanced students looking for a critical, provocative, and insightful treatment of Danto’s philosophy, art, and criticism.

A Companion to Arthur C. Danto

A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows the long history of a short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned. Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical detective story, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the extraordinary number of thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la vie de bohème, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? The book explores narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea to a square when each is so purposefully named red?

A Philosophical Detective Story

Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread

Designed as a philosophical detective story, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the extraordinary number of thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps,until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. Lydia Goehr explores these narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts.

Daniel Alan Herwitz

'The Don Giovanni Movement' examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's operatic masterpiece in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. Deeply rooted in the enlightenment and romanticism, the opera functions as icon andmyth, and its tensions still resonate today.

Essays on the Legacy of an Opera

The Don Giovanni Moment

Lydia Goehr

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