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Danto |
| Western Philosophy 20th-century philosophy |
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| Full name | Arthur Coleman Danto |
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| Birth | 1 January 1924 Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| School/tradition | Analytic |
| Main interests | Philosophy of art Philosophy of history Philosophy of action |
| Notable ideas | Narrative Sentences Basic Actions End of Art Post-historical art Indiscernibles |
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Arthur Coleman Danto (born 1924) is an American art critic, and professor of philosophy.
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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) and then pursued graduate study in philosophy at Columbia University. From 1949 to 1950, Danto studied in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and in 1951 returned to teach at Columbia, where he is currently Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy Emeritus.
He is best known for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he has contributed significantly to a number of fields, His interests span thought, feeling, philosophy of art, theories of representation, philosophical psychology, Hegel's aesthetics, and the philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Arthur Schopenhauer.
Arthur Danto is an art critic for The Nation, and has also published numerous articles in other journals. In addition, he is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and a contributing editor of the Naked Punch Review and Artforum. In art criticism, he has published several collected essays, including Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990), which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism in 1990; Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992); Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (University of California, 1995); and The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000) and Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life.
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. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Danto is the author of numerous books on philosophy and art, including:
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