Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential philosopher and critic who championed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists and upended the study of art history by declaring that the history of art ...

Arthur C. Danto was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1924, and grew up in Detroit. After spending two years in the Army, Danto studied art and history at Wayne University (now Wayne State University) ...

Charting the disappearance of beauty as a primary artistic value in the 20th century, Danto (The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, etc.) offers a hot-and-cold mix of philosophical musings and ...

Charting the disappearance of beauty as a primary artistic value in the 20th century, Danto (The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, etc.) offers a hot-and-cold mix of philosophical musings and ...

Marvin Danto, a visionary developer who made South Florida a global destination for the furniture design industry, died Tuesday from natural causes in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He was 95. In 1983, when ...

In an obituary for the New York Times, Ken Johnson described Arthur Danto (1924–2013) as “one of the most widely read art critics of the Postmodern era.” Danto, who was both a critic and a professor ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential philosopher and critic who championed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists and upended the study of art history by declaring that ...

"For Danto, to be an artist meant to become a philosopher," writes Santiago Zabala [EPA] Last Friday, Arthur C Danto, one of the most important American philosophers and art critics of the second part ...

Oakland University, one of Michigan's leading educational institutions, has announced that JOANNE DANTO is the recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Arts for her contributions to the dance community as ...

At first, Al Danto, 62, chalked his blurry vision up to eye strain from grading papers. Hundreds of students enroll each semester in his new enterprise and enterprise acquisition courses in Rice ...

Wakeful dreams -- Restoration and meaning -- The body in philosophy and art -- The end of the contest: the paragone between painting and photography -- Kant and the work of art -- The future of ...