236 Index
Croce, Benedetto, 54
cross-art standards, 118, 121–23
cubism, 124, 167–68, 171, 187
and representation, 124
culture, crisis of, vii–viiiDada, 143, 213n4
artist over art in, 192
and external meaning, 192
as nihilist, 191–92
Dali, Salvador, 20, 190
Dante, 78–82, 86, 90, 91, 93
Divine Comedy, 79
Danto, Arthur, 45, 86, 122, 192
on art
as philosophical, 57–58, 75–76
as representational 57
as self-reflective, 57, 69
artworld, 216n4
The Abuse of Beauty, 209n2
After the End of Art, 209n2
on artistic progress, 52–54, 69
on the end of art, 51–52, 57–59,
75–77, 205n1, 205n2, 209n3,
210n6
essentialist historical theory of art, 57
on expressivism, 54–55
and Hegel, 51, 58
on mimetic theory of art, 53–54
The Transfiguration of the
Commonplace, 57
Darmstadt modernists, 97
Darwin, Charles, 117, 125, 213–14n5
on fundamental processes, 112–13
Darwinism
applied outside biology, 214n5
Davies, Paul, 158
The Cosmic Blueprint, 152
Davies, Stephen
Definitions of Art, 170, 219n15[a]
deconstruction, 134, 141, 145, 147–49
Delany, Paul, 197n22
depiction-description difference, 53
Derrida, Jacques, 134, 145–47, 151
“Signature Event Context,” 146
The Derrière Guard, 136
Descartes, René, 62, 141–44, 151Dewey, John, 85–86, 211n26
Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield, 155
Dickie, George, 202n8, 216n4
Diderot, Denis
Jacques le fataliste, 60
différance, 134, 145
Donald, Merlin, 47–48
A Mind So Rare, 47
Origins of the Modern Mind, 47,
204n20
Donne, John, 156, 159
“A Hymn to God the Father,” 159
downward causation, 151–52
Duchamp, Marcel, 39, 42, 51, 77, 191,
201n5
Fountain, 57–58, 201n5
In Advance of a Broken Arm, 57
Dutton, Denis, 219n16Eakins, Thomas, 173
The Edge City Review (magazine), 136
Efland, Arthur
Art and Cognition, 38, 201n4
Egg: The Art Show(TV show), 168
Einstein, Albert, 143
Elderfield, John, 177
Eliot, T.S., 135, 161–62
“The Metaphysical Poets,” 161–62
secret code of, 162–63
The Waste Land, 162–63
“emergence,” 147–48
Emin, Tracey, 8
Escher, M.C., 118, 155
Estes, Richard, 181, 225n49
evolution
as ad hoc, 117
variation in, 125
evolutionary psychology, 115
Expansive Poetry and Music (group and
website), 136
expressionist fallacy, 106Faulkner, William, 156
Feinberg, Joel, 211n31
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 207n25, 207n29