Companion to Arthur C. Danto

Jonathan Gilmore is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and Baruch College, New York, USA. A philosopher of art and an art critic, he is the recipient of NEH, Whiting, Mellon, and other national fellowships and awards. His most recent book, Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind, was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Monograph Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics. Lydia Goehr is a Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York, USA. She is a recipient of Mellon, Getty, and Guggenheim Fellowships. Her works include The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music, The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy, Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory, and Red Sea, Red Square, Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story.

• Preface viiiJonathan Gilmore and Lydia GoehrNotes on Contributors xIntroduction: Five Pieces for Arthur Danto (1924–2013) In memoriam 1Lydia Goehr, Daniel Herwitz, Fred Rush, Michael Kelly, and Jonathan Gilmore1 Roquebrune, 1962 15Ginger Danto2 Boundaries Crossed 18András Szántó3 Writing with Style 26Arturo Fontaine4 Sartre, Transparency, and Style 33Taylor Carman5 Nietzsche and Historical Understanding 42Robert Gooding-Williams6 Pragmatism between Art and Life 51Richard Shusterman7 Danto on Dewey (and Dewey on Danto) 59Casey Haskins8 Thought Experiments: Art and Ethics 68F. M. Kamm9 A Normative Perspective on Basic Actions 76Carol Rovane10 Cognitive Science and Art Criticism 85Mark Rollins11 Perception 93Sam Rose and Bence Nanay12 The Anthropology of Art 103David Davies13 The Birth of Art 112Whitney Davis14 The End of Art 124Georg W. Bertram15 Representation, Truth, and Historical Reality 132Frank Ankersmit16 History and Retrospection 143Noël Carroll17 Action in the Shadow of Time 152Adrian Haddock18 The Sixties 162Espen Hammer19 Criticism and the Pale of History 170Gregg M. Horowitz20 Postmodernism and Its Discontents 180David Carrier21 Shakespeare and the Repetition of the Commonplace 190Rachel Eisendrath22 Engaging Henry James: The Metaphorical Perspective 199Garry L. Hagberg23 Literature, Philosophy, Persona, Politics 207Richard Eldridge24 Moving Pictures 216Fred Rush25 Photography and Danto’s Craft of the Mind 223Scott Walden26 Transfiguration/Transubstantiation 233Sixto J. Castro27 Embodiment and Medium 240Tiziana Andina28 The Style Matrix 248Sondra Bacharach29 Disenfranchisement 256Jane Forsey30 Definition 263Karlheinz Lüdeking31 Danto and Dickie: Artworld and Institution 273Michalle Gal32 Danto and Wittgenstein: History and Essence 281Sonia Sedivy33 Censorship and Subsidy 292Brian Soucek34 Amnesty International and Human Rights 301Emma Stone Mackinnon35 Random Noise, Radical Silence 309Marlies De Munck36 Mad Men and Pop Art 317Sue Spaid37 Vija Celmins: Nature at Art’s End 326Sandra Shapshay38 The Meaning of Ugliness, The Authority of Beauty 336J. M. Bernstein39 Feminist Criticism: On Disturbatory Art and Beauty 345Peg Brand Weiser40 Beauty and Politics 355Matilde Carrasco Barranco41 Public Art: Monuments, Memorials, and Earthworks 363Gary Shapiro42 On Architecture 373Remei Capdevila-Werning43 Aliveness and Aboutness: Yvonne Rainer’s Dance Indiscernibles 381Kyle Bukhari44 Arthur and Andy 389Daniel Herwitz45 Letter to Posterity 397Arthur C. DantoIndex 404