Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur C. Danto

Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art



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Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art Arthur C. Danto ebook
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
Page: 224
ISBN: 9780812695403


"A century ago, beauty was almost unanimously considered the supreme purpose of art and even synonymous with artistic excellence. Yet today beauty has come to be viewed as an aesthetic crime. Artists are now chastised by critics if their works seem to aim at beauty." "In the last few years, however, some artists, critics, and curators have begun to give beauty another look. The resulting discussion is often confused, with arts pundits sometimes seeing beauty as a betrayal of the artist's authentic role, other times working hard to find beauty in the apparently grotesque or disgusting." Leading art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto here explains how the anti-beauty revolution was hatched, and how the modernist

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