Arthur Danto
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Arthur Coleman Danto (b. 1924) is an American art critic, professor and philosopher. He is best known for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he has contributed significantly to a number of fields.
Professor Danto has been teaching at Columbia University in New York since 1951, as a professor since 1966. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and grants including two Guggenheim Fellowships, ACLS, and Fulbright, and has served as Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association, as well as President of the American Society for Aesthetics.
Danto is the author of numerous books, including Nietzsche as Philosopher, Mysticism and Morality, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Narration and Knowledge, Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, and Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, a collection of art criticism which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism in 1990. His most recent book is Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life .
As art critic for The Nation, he has also published numerous articles in other journals. In addition, he is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and consulting editor for various other publications.
Prof. Arthur Danto is contributing editor of Naked Punch Review and Artforum.
- Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
- B.A., Wayne State University (1948)
- M.A., Columbia University (1949)
- Ph.D., Columbia University (1952)
[edit] Areas of specialization
Thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Arthur Schopenhauer.
[edit] External Links
- Audio Interview by Alan Saunders of ABC Radio National on the topic "Is it art?" -what objects/setups can be called art and what such categorization teaches us.
