Arthur C. Danto - Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective

A ground-breaking contribution to contemporary thinking about aesthetics, Arthur C. Danto's new collection of interconnected essays grapples with the most challenging issues in art today, among them the problems of contemporary pluralism and the dilemmas of censorship and state support for artists. Andy Warhol's Brillo Box of 1964 constituted a radical attack on traditional definitions of the artwork and, in Danto's view, brought the history of Western art to a close. Beyond the Brillo Box considers the aftermath and the consequences of Warhol's work on three levels. Danto first discusses what he calls the master narrative of Western art, showing how even the most revolutionary pre-Pop movements were nourished by a common conception of art which lay securely within the Western tradition, and contrasting this tradition to parallel narratives in the East and in Africa. He then takes up the current, post-historical period, which began with Warhol and the collision of "high" and "low" art, and discusses how the

Key Information
Authors		Arthur C. Danto
Nonfiction Category		Art • Philosophy
Book Editions
		PaperbackReprint263November 01, 1998Univ of California Pr9"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.85 lbs.9780520216747