Arthur Danto is the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and the most influential philosopher of art in the last half century. As

One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.

Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new the

An eclectic collection of essays centering on the intersection of art and philosophy, especially in the late 20th century.

The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art A classic