The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art

This acclaimed work is of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about art, as well as to philosophers, aestheticians, and art historians. Danto explores the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy. In light of the book's impact — especially the essay "The End of Art," which dramatically announced that art ended in the 1960s — this enhanced edition includes a foreword by Jonathan Gilmore that discusses how scholarship has changed in response to it.

New York Times Book Review

Mr. Danto's view is an important corrective to naive formalism as well as to the recent 'institutional analysis of art' .... The magnitude of the issues Mr. Danto's book raises is a mark of the book's importance.

Arthur C. Danto is professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University. He is the art critic for the Nation and has served as president of the American Philosophical Association. His many books include After the End of Art, Nietzsche as Philosopher, and Art in the Historical Present, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2003, he was awarded the coveted Prix Philosophe.

Jonathan Gilmore is assistant professor of philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art.