Spirit and the perception of art

  • Arthur C. Danto Columbia University, USA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/10.5281/zenodo.5062974
Keywords: Kant, Clement Greenberg

Abstract

Today art can be made of anything, put together with anything, in the service of presenting any ideas whatever. That puts great interpretative pressures on viewers to grasp the way the spirit of the artist undertook to present the ideas that concerned her or him. The embodiment of ideas or meanings is perhaps all we require as a philosophical theory of what art is. But doing the criticism that consists in finding the way the idea is embodied varies from work to work. No hay reglas en las artes.

Author Biography

Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University, USA

Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of Columbia University, New York, NY.

Published
2012-12-31
How to Cite
[1]
Danto, A.C. 2012. Spirit and the perception of art. Disputatio. 1, 2 (Dec. 2012), 5-14. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/10.5281/zenodo.5062974.
Issue
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2012)
Section
Invited Authors

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