After the Avant-Gardes

I do not intend to quarrel with this picture. On the contrary, in my view there is strong evidence that the condition of art tod ...

1.2 TWOTHEORIES OFARTISTICPROGRESS Danto discusses—and partially rejects—two substantial theories of artistic progress before he ...

representation. Even if this was true, it would be no trivial truth, because it would make the question urgent how pictorial exp ...

‘being ashamed of one’s own country’. Objectless emotions then come into the picture through a kind of abstraction marked by the ...

Some aspects of the conjunction of historical mimetic representa- tionalism and historical expressivism are quite discomforting, ...

believed they were partaking in a large scale cultural project while in fact there was no such project. One might suspect that a ...

Danto is fond of saying, these works are, by the same token, artworks and philosophies of art. According to this idea, Fountaine ...

stood as a kind of historical event, just as knowing absolutely is not a state or possession but rather a form of activity. So i ...

somehow. But unlike Schiller, he does not believe that art is, above all, supposed to replace religion in the sphere ofmorals. F ...

forms and matters into one work of art.^21 This is at least one aspect of the kind of irony that Schlegel writes about so many t ...

of the limits of a narrowly deterministic Newtonianism that leaves no room for an adequate understanding of life. But that does ...

The trouble with the subjectivity of knowledge is that it cannot be plainly stated in scientific or even philosophical terms. Th ...

assertive moves explicit always invites scepticism about the claims involved.^28 Philosophy and science are both confined to the ...

gious forms of expression. It has also adapted, developed and refined them for its own, aesthetic, purposes. In short, modern ar ...

doctrine nor a prediction but a double-edged ad hominemargument. It is double-edged because the argument has a temporal(or histo ...

here, because the irony is directed against a core idea of Romanticism itself. Hegel shows thinkers like Schlegel, who see thems ...

indirect. But, as Hegel and Schelling claim in unison, if there were no relation between art and religion at all, the very possi ...

ing the inherent subjectivity of knowledge-claims is not a problem of linguistic expression but rather a matter of taking statem ...

though. Both philosophers agree that self-reflectiveness is an essential feature of art. But the kind of artistic self-reference ...

The characteristic features of human life are the central theme of art. They are what art is all about. Different arts refer to ...