Wake of Art : Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste (Hardcover)

introduction the wake of art, gregg horowitz, tom huhn; Chapter 1 blam!First published in The Nation, October 20,1984., arthur c. danto; Chapter 2 the philosophical disenfranchisement of artThis essay is an expanded version of a plenary address before the World Congress of Aesthetics, in Montreal, August 1984. The theme of that conference was “Art and the Transformations of Philosophy.” A slightly modified version appeared in Grand Street I am grateful to Professor Elinor West for her deep analyses of the relationship between Plato and Aristophanes. If she is right, we read an impoverished text of the Republic in not appreciating the punning references to Aristophanes the original readers of such texts would have been alive to., arthur c. danto; Chapter 3 learning to live with pluralismThis lecture was the invited keynote address for the Glass Arts Society in Corning, New York, in June 1991, and was published in that society's journal in 1991., arthur c. danto; Chapter 4 symbolic expressions and the selfOriginally delivered on Wimal Dassanayake's invitation at his seminar on the self at the East-West Center in Honolulu in August 1990, but in a radically different form., arthur c. danto; Chapter 5 art after the end of artFirst published in Artforum, April 1993; Chapter 6 hans haacke and the industry of artFirst published in The Nation, February 14,1987., arthur c. danto; Chapter 7 red groomsFirst published in The Nation, September 12,1987., arthur c. danto; Chapter 8 tilted arc and public artFirst published in The Nation, June 22,1985., arthur c. danto; Chapter 9 the Vietnam veterans memorialFirst published in The Nation, August 31,1985., arthur c. danto; Chapter 10 the 1991 whitney biennialFirst published in The Nation, June 3,1991., arthur c. danto; Chapter 11 the 1993 whitney biennialFirst published in The Nation, April 19,1993., arthur c. danto; Chapter 12 the abstract expressionist coca-cola bottleA version of this essay appeared as “Metamorphoses de la bouteille de Coca” in the catalogue for the exhibition Art ? Pub at the Centre Georges Pompidou in January 1991., arthur c. danto;