We are very pleased to give notice of the new volume A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, ed. by Jonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr (Wiley Blackwell, 2022).
From the publisher’s website:
A Companion to Arthur C. Danto paints a detailed portrait of one the most significant figures in twentieth-century philosophy and art criticism, offering unparalleled coverage of all aspects of Danto’s writings, artworks, and thought. Edited by two long-time colleagues of Arthur Danto, this interdisciplinary resource presents more than 40 original essays from both prominent Danto scholars and leading practitioners from various sub-fields of philosophy.
The Companion illuminates Danto’s many contributions to the artworld, aesthetics, criticism, and philosophy of knowledge, action, science, history, and politics. The essays explore central concepts and intersecting themes in Danto’s writings while providing new interventions into the areas of philosophy in which Danto engaged. Topics include Danto’s mode of writing and art production, his critical engagement with artists and philosophers, conflicts in Danto’s views and in interpretations of his works, and much more.
An important addition to Danto studies, A Companion to Arthur C. Danto is essential reading for practitioners, scholars, and advanced students looking for a critical, provocative, and insightful treatment of Danto’s philosophy, art, and criticism.
Below you can find the Table of Contents:
Preface
Jonathan Gilmore and Lydia Goehr
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Five Pieces for Arthur Danto (1924–2013) In memoriam
Lydia Goehr, Daniel Herwitz, Fred Rush, Michael Kelly, and Jonathan Gilmore
1. Roquebrune, 1962
Ginger Danto
2. Boundaries Crossed
András Szántó
3. Writing with Style
Arturo Fontaine
4. Sartre, Transparency, and Style
Taylor Carman
5. Nietzsche and Historical Understanding
Robert Gooding-Williams
6. Pragmatism between Art and Life
Richard Shusterman
7. Danto on Dewey (and Dewey on Danto)
Casey Haskins
8. Thought Experiments: Art and Ethics
F. M. Kamm
9. A Normative Perspective on Basic Actions
Carol Rovane
10. Cognitive Science and Art Criticism
Mark Rollins
11. Perception
Sam Rose and Bence Nanay
12. The Anthropology of Art
David Davies
13. The Birth of Art
Whitney Davis
14. The End of Art
Georg W. Bertram
15. Representation, Truth, and Historical Reality
Frank Ankersmit
16. History and Retrospection
Noël Carroll
17. Action in the Shadow of Time
Adrian Haddock
18. The Sixties
Espen Hammer
19. Criticism and the Pale of History
Gregg M. Horowitz
20. Postmodernism and Its Discontents
David Carrier
21. Shakespeare and the Repetition of the Commonplace
Rachel Eisendrath
22. Engaging Henry James: The Metaphorical Perspective
Garry L. Hagberg
23. Literature, Philosophy, Persona, Politics
Richard Eldridge
24. Moving Pictures
Fred Rush
25. Photography and Danto’s Craft of the Mind
Scott Walden
26. Transfiguration/Transubstantiation
Sixto J. Castro
27. Embodiment and Medium
Tiziana Andina
28. The Style Matrix
Sondra Bacharach
29. Disenfranchisement
Jane Forsey
30. Definition
Karlheinz Lüdeking
31. Danto and Dickie: Artworld and Institution
Michalle Gal
32. Danto and Wittgenstein: History and Essence
Sonia Sedivy
33. Censorship and Subsidy
Brian Soucek
34. Amnesty International and Human Rights
Emma Stone Mackinnon
35. Random Noise, Radical Silence
Marlies De Munck
36. Mad Men and Pop Art
Sue Spaid
37. Vija Celmins: Nature at Art’s End
Sandra Shapshay
38. The Meaning of Ugliness, The Authority of Beauty
J. M. Bernstein
39. Feminist Criticism: On Disturbatory Art and Beauty
Peg Brand Weiser
40. Beauty and Politics
Matilde Carrasco Barranco
41. Public Art: Monuments, Memorials, and Earthworks
Gary Shapiro
42. On Architecture
Remei Capdevila-Werning
43. Aliveness and Aboutness: Yvonne Rainer’s Dance Indiscernibles
Kyle Bukhari
44. Arthur and Andy
Daniel Herwitz
45. Letter to Posterity
Arthur C. Danto
Index
