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Andy Warhol

Product Description: In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon...read more

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9780300135558 | Yale Univ Pr, October 20, 2009, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations.

Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East -- a Cultural Biography

Product Description: A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few words of the English language. Yet, two years later he writes a successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade publishes more than a dozen others. This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for the Silent Traveller seriesùstories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australiaùall written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style...read more

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9780813546933, titled "Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East" | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 5, 2010, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few words of the English language.

Eric Fischl: 1970 - 2007

Product Description: Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama...read more

By Arthur C. Danto, Robert Enright and Steve Martin (other contributor)

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9781580931953 | Monacelli Pr, May 15, 2008, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters.

Unnatural Wonders: Essays From The Gap Between Art And Life

Product Description: Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century...read more

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9780374281182 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2005, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Presents essays by the art critic for 'The Nation,' who reviews several artists, including John Currin, Renee Cox, Sol LeWitt, and Joan Mitchell.

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9780231141154 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Arthur C.

Narration and Knowledge

Product Description: Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative. Analytical philosopher Arthur C. Danto introduces the concept of "narrative sentences," in which an event is described with reference to later events (for example, "the Thirty Years' War began in 1618") and discusses why such sentences cannot be understood until the later event happens (no one could have said in 1618 that "the Thirty Years' War began today")...read more

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9780231138222 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 14, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative.

9780231061162 | Subsequent edition (Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 1985), cover price $84.50 | About this edition: Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative.

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9780231138239 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 14, 2007, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative.

9780231061179 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative.

June Wayne: The Art of Everything: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1936-2006

Product Description: Since her first solo exhibition in 1935 at the age of seventeen, June Wayne has achieved legendary status among twentieth-century American artists. Best known today for her work in and influence on printmaking and fine-art lithography, one of her most renowned achievements was the founding of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1959...read more

By Robert P. Conway and Arthur C. Danto

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9780813538242 | Rutgers Univ Pr, February 15, 2007, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Since her first solo exhibition in 1935 at the age of seventeen, June Wayne has achieved legendary status among twentieth-century American artists.

Saga: The Journey of Arno Minkkinen: Thirty-Five Years Of Photographs

Product Description: THIS IS THE LIMITED, BOXED, NUMBERED EDITIONSaga is the first major monograph of the work of Arno Minkkinen, published to accompany a series of exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Offering a comprehensive retrospective of this vital photographer's work, Saga gives new meaning to the self-portrait...read more

By Todd Brandow, A. D. Coleman, Arthur C. Danto and Arno Rafael Minkkinen

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9780811851466 | Chronicle Books Llc, November 30, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: THIS IS THE LIMITED, BOXED, NUMBERED EDITIONSaga is the first major monograph of the work of Arno Minkkinen, published to accompany a series of exhibitions in the U.

Peter Fischli - David Weiss

Product Description: Fischli and Weiss are highly prestigious, bluechip contemporary artists who work with sculpture, photography and video, positioned at the very cutting edges of new art. They represented Switzerland in the Venice Biennales of 1995 and 2003, and won the Leone d'Oro prize in the latter for their slideshow Will Happiness Find Me? The style of the work is extremely varied; what remains consistent throughout is an air of quiet unpredictability...read more

By Arthur C. Danto, Robert Fleck and Beate Soentgen

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9780714843230 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, November 1, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Fischli and Weiss are highly prestigious, bluechip contemporary artists who work with sculpture, photography and video, positioned at the very cutting edges of new art.

Wave Music

Product Description: Description: Wave Music by photographer Clifford Ross, opens with explosive images of stormy seas and skies--photographs taken on the edge of hurricanes. This series presents gorgeous, formalist slices of nature at her most tempestuous and romantic...read more

By Arthur C. Danto and A. M. Homes (contributor)

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9781931788618 | Aperture, July 30, 2005, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Description: Wave Music by photographer Clifford Ross, opens with explosive images of stormy seas and skies--photographs taken on the edge of hurricanes.

Nietzsche As Philosopher

Product Description: First published in 1965, Danto's study argues that Nietzsche offers a systematic and coherent philosophy, anticipating many of the questions that define contemporary philosophy. Danto's commentaries helped canonize Nietzsche as a philosopher and continue to illuminate subtleties in Nietzsche's work as well as his immense contributions to the philosophies of science, language, and logic...read more

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9780231135184 | Expanded edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 30, 2005), cover price $80.00 | About this edition: First published in 1965, Danto's study argues that Nietzsche offers a systematic and coherent philosophy, anticipating many of the questions that define contemporary philosophy.

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9780231135191 | Expanded edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 31, 2005), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: First published in 1965, Danto's study argues that Nietzsche offers a systematic and coherent philosophy, anticipating many of the questions that define contemporary philosophy.

The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

Product Description: In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C. Danto explored the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy. In light of the book's impact -- especially the essay "The End of Art," which dramatically announced that art ended in the 1960s -- this enhanced edition includes a foreword by Jonathan Gilmore that discusses how scholarship has changed in response to it...read more

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9780231132268 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $67.00 | About this edition: In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C.

9780231063647 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $84.50 | About this edition: In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C.

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9780231132275 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 30, 2004, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C.

9780231063654 | Columbia Univ Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: -- "Philosophy and Literature"

Robert Mangold

Product Description: In contrast to the hard-edged Minimalists, however, Mangold's gently curved paintings and subtle, evocative colours recall a variety of sources, from frescos to traditional Greek ceramics. With a beauty, quiet and sensitivity reminiscent of the work of Piero della Francesca, Mangold's art investigates the state of painting today, resulting in over thirty years' worth of important avant garde art - and some of the most magnificent abstract paintings being produced today...read more

By Arthur C. Danto, Nancy Princenthal, Richard Shiff and Robert Storr

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9780714844480 | Phaidon Inc Ltd, December 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In contrast to the hard-edged Minimalists, however, Mangold's gently curved paintings and subtle, evocative colours recall a variety of sources, from frescos to traditional Greek ceramics.

Red Grooms

A dramatic, richly illustrated retrospective on the work of Red Grooms, the acclaimed American artist who intertwines sculpture and painting, includes drawings, personal photographs, and prints that have never been seen or published, along with a critical discussion of his oeuvre and his influence on modern art.

By Arthur C. Danto, Red Grooms, Timothy Hyman and Marco Livingstone

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9780847825776 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, June 1, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A richly illustrated retrospective on the work of Red Grooms, the acclaimed American artist who intertwines sculpture and painting, includes drawings, personal photographs, and prints that have never been seen or published, along with a critical discussion of his oeuvre and his influence on modern art.

The Color of Time: The Phoographs of Sean Scully

Product Description: Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands, as close to home as his own studio. His photographs sometimes consist of close-up shots of his own paintings, wherein he zooms in on the material reality of his richly painted surfaces and transforms their colors and shapes into a different abstract configuration...read more

By Arthur C. Danto, Mia Fineman, Edward Lucie-Smith (introduced by) and Sean Scully

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9783882439618 | Steidl / Edition7L, March 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands, as close to home as his own studio.

Michele Oka Doner: Natural Seduction

Product Description: The evolution and cultural implications of the artist's remarkable sculpture, furniture, jewellery, public art commissions, and functional objects. Oka Doner translates organic forms into objects of natural seduction.

By Arthur C. Danto, Michele Oka Doner, Morris Lapidus, Suzanne Ramljak and Wolfson (foreword by)

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9781555952150 | Hudson Hills Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The evolution and cultural implications of the artist's remarkable sculpture, furniture, jewellery, public art commissions, and functional objects.

The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art

Product Description: In The Abuse of Beauty, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto explains how the notion of beauty as anathema to art arose and flourished and offers a new way of looking at art and beauty. He draws on the thought of artists, critics, and philosophers such as Rimbaud, Fry, Matisse, and Greenberg, to reposition beauty as one of many modes - along with sexuality, sublimity, disgust, and horror - through which the human sensibility expresses itself...read more

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9780812695397 | Open Court Pub Co, July 1, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In The Abuse of Beauty, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto explains how the notion of beauty as anathema to art arose and flourished and offers a new way of looking at art and beauty.

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9780812695403 | Open Court Pub Co, June 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In The Abuse of Beauty, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto explains how the notion of beauty as anathema to art arose and flourished and offers a new way of looking at art and beauty.

La madonna del futuro/ The Madonna of the Future: Ensayos en un mundo del arte plural/ Essays in a Pluralistic Art World

Product Description: os ensayos sobre arte de Arthur C. Danto, a la vez elegantes y revolucionarios, son la mejor radiografía posible sobre el discurrir de las artes visuales en el mundo de hoy. Y en La madonna del futuro, Danto lleva al lector a la encrucijada en la que coinciden todos los vectores del arte contemporáneo: la pintura tradicional, el pop art, la mezcla de géneros y las instalaciones; las relaciones entre el arte y la filosofía; los especialistas que aterrizan en ese mundo bien provistos de teorías y los aficionados que sólo confían en su propia mirada...read more

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9788449313820 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 15, 2003), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: os ensayos sobre arte de Arthur C.

La Transfiguracion Del Lugar Comun

Product Description: Desde su aparición en 1981, La transfiguración del lugar común se ha convertido en referencia obligada de la reflexión filosófica sobre el arte moderno. Danto responde con brillantez a la ya clásica pregunta "¿Cuándo se produce el arte?"...read more

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9788449311864, titled "La transfiguracion del lugar comun / The Transfiguration of The Commonplace" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 15, 2002, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Desde su aparición en 1981, La transfiguración del lugar común se ha convertido en referencia obligada de la reflexión filosófica sobre el arte moderno.

Brushes With History: Writing on Art from the Nation, 1865-2001

Product Description: The Nation magazine, since its founding in 1865, began what has become, for better or worse, art criticism as a cultural institution in the United States. This eclectic collection features contributors like Christopher Hitchens on “degenerate art,” Heywood Broun on the Artists Congress of 1936, Katherine Anne Porter on children’s art, Marianne Moore on the death of Nation art critic Paul Rosenfeld, and Langston Hughes on “Negro Art...read more

By Arthur C. Danto (introduced by) and Peter G. Meyer (editor)

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9781560253297 | Nation Books, October 11, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Nation magazine, since its founding in 1865, began what has become, for better or worse, art criticism as a cultural institution in the United States.

The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World

Product Description: The Madonna of the Future finds Danto at the point where all the vectors of the art world intersect: those of traditional painting, Pop art, mixed media, and installation art; those of art and philosophy; those of the specialist who brings theory to bear on the work and the viewer who appreciates it primarily visually...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780374106133 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 2000, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Arthur C.

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9780520230026 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The Madonna of the Future finds Danto at the point where all the vectors of the art world intersect: those of traditional painting, Pop art, mixed media, and installation art; those of art and philosophy; those of the specialist who brings theory to bear on the work and the viewer who appreciates it primarily visually.

Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South : The Ronald and June Shelp Collection

Complemented by more than 170 superlative illustrations and reproductions, this vivid look at African-American vernacular art celebrates the work of twenty-seven self-taught artists whose artistry captures the social, cultural, and spiritual experiences of African Americans in America's South.

By Kinshasha Conwill (editor), Arthur C. Danto, Edmund Barry Gaither, Grey Gundaker and Judith M. McWillie

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9780810944848 | Harry N Abrams Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A look at African American vernacular art celebrates the work of twenty-seven self-taught artists whose artistry captures the social, cultural, and spiritual experiences of African Americans in America's South.

The Unknown Masterpiece: And, Gambara

Product Description: A New York Review Books OriginalOne of Honoré de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius—or both...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Honore De Balzac, Arthur C. Danto (introduced by) and Richard Howard (trans)

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9780940322745 | New York Review of Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A New York Review Books OriginalOne of Honoré de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius—or both.

The Body/Body Problem: Selected Essays

Product Description: The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who represent--and misrepresent--actual and possible worlds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780520212824 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies.

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9780520229082 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies.

Eric Fischl, 1970-2000

Product Description: Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging and distinctly American canvases narration, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arthur C. Danto, Robert Enright, Eric Fischl and Steve Martin

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9781580930758 | Monacelli Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters.

Howard Ben Tre

Product Description: Ben Tr, is a pioneer of three-dimensional glass, casting, brilliantly using the process to create art that juxtaposes modern industrial aestethics with ancient architectonic references. This definitive volume surveys the broad scope of his career, from small early works to vast public projects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Arthur C. Danto, Mary Jane Jacob and Patterson Sims

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9781555951870 | Hudson Hills Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Ben Tr, is a pioneer of three-dimensional glass, casting, brilliantly using the process to create art that juxtaposes modern industrial aestethics with ancient architectonic references.

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9781555951887 | Hudson Hills Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: Ben Tr, is a pioneer of three-dimensional glass, casting, brilliantly using the process to create art that juxtaposes modern industrial aestethics with ancient architectonic references.

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