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Embodied meanings : critical essays & aesthetic meditations / Arthur C. Danto.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-152891

Description

xvi, 397 p. ; 24 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Art, Modern 20th century.
Art Philosophy.

Originator

Danto, Arthur Coleman, 1924-

Contents

Braque, Picasso, and early Cubism -- Helen Frankenthaler -- Ming and Qing paintings -- Mario Merz -- Velâazquez -- Women and mainstream art -- Jenny Holzer -- Tim Rollins + K.O.S. -- Furniture as art -- Monet's serial paintings of the 1890s -- Postminimalist sculpture -- Francis Bacon -- Trompe l'Oeil and transaction -- The art of Boggs -- Hans Hofmann -- Gins and Arakawa : building sensoriums -- High & low at MoMA -- David Hockney as set designer -- The magic flute and Turandot -- Abide/abode -- Titian -- Van Dyck -- Max Neuhaus : sound works -- Piero della Francesca's Resurrection -- Kazimir Malevich -- Liubov Popova -- The 1991 Whitney Biennial -- Site-specific works at the Spoleto Festival -- Ad Reinhardt -- Rosemarie Trockel -- The sacred art of Tibet -- Georges Seurat -- Dislocationary art -- Hendrik Goltzius and Mannerism -- Whatever happened to beauty? -- Andrea Mantegna -- Eva Hesse -- Picasso's still lifes -- Henri Matisse -- Martin Puryear, or the quandaries of craftsmanship -- Fine art and functional objects -- Photographism in contemporary German art -- The 1993 Whitney Biennial -- Art after the end of art -- Quality and inequality -- Museum and merengue --Beauty and morality -- Aesthetics and art criticism.

Publication

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux

Description

xvi, 397 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rodris Roth Library.

ISBN

0374147620 :

Call Number

Roth/Coll. N6490.D236 1994

Edition

1st ed.

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